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

Title
Sanctified subversives : nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature / by Horacio Sierra.
Author
Sierra, Horacio
Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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Description
234 pages; 22 cm
Subject
  • 1500-1700
  • Nuns in literature
  • English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  • Spanish literature > Classical period, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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
  • 9781443891127
OCLC
  • 962354373
  • SCSB-11906258
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library