Sanctified subversives : nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature / by Horacio Sierra.

Author
Sierra, Horacio [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Description
234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.
    Contents
    • Early modern nuns in context
    • Reclaiming Isabella, the queer virgin: celebrating Catholicism's opportunities in Measure for measure
    • Convents as feminist utopias: Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure and the potential of closeted dramas and communities
    • The Sarao as conventual rhetorical space in María De Zaya's Desengaños amorosos
    • Straddling the secular and spiritual divide: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's life and literature
    • Extraconventual escapades: erstwhile nuns in Erauso's and Behn's fictions.
    ISBN
    • 1443891126 ((hardcover))
    • 9781443891127 ((hardcover))
    OCLC
    962354373
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