Antidote Against Purgatory. Or Discourse, Wherein is Shewed that Good-workes, and Almes-deeds, Performed in the Name of Christ, are a Chiefe Meanes for the Preuenting, Or Migatating the Torments of Purgatory. Written by that Vertuous, and Rightworthy Gentle-woman (the Honour of Her Sexe for Learning in England) Ms. Iane Owen, Late of God-stow, in Oxfordshire, Deceased, and Now Published After Her Death
Antidote Against Purgatory. Or Discourse, Wherein is Shewed that Good-workes, and Almes-deeds, Performed in the Name of Christ, are a Chiefe Meanes for the Preuenting, Or Migatating the Torments of Purgatory. Written by that Vertuous, and Rightworthy Gentle-woman (the Honour of Her Sexe for Learning in England) Ms. Iane Owen, Late of God-stow, in Oxfordshire, Deceased, and Now Published After Her Death

Author: Jane Owen (of God-stow.)

Publisher:

Published: 1634

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Grotesque Purgatory
Grotesque Purgatory

Author: Henry W. Sullivan

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0271041048

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Cervantes's great novel Don Quixote is a diptych, the first part of which was published in 1605 and the second in 1615. Focusing almost entirely on the novel's second part, Henry W. Sullivan is the first critic to offer a systematic account of Don Quixote's passage from madness to sanity. Sullivan argues that Part II of the novel is a salvation epic, within which the Cave of Montesinos episode is the single most important pivot in the Knight's confrontation with his own emotional difficulties. In this carefully researched and challenging study, Sullivan shows that chapters 22-24 (the Cave of Montesinos episode) represent an entrance into Purgatory, while chapter 55 is the exit from this realm. The Knight and his Squire are made to suffer excruciating torments in the chapters in between, experiencing a Purgatory in this life. This original reading of the book is coupled with an explanation that this Purgatory is &"grotesque&" since Don Quixote's and Sancho's sins are venial and can thus be cleansed by theological means against a background of comedy. By combining these two aspects, Sullivan exposes both the deeply agonizing and the comic aspects of the text. In addition, the combination of theological interpretation and Lacanian analysis to show Don Quixote's salvation/cure in this life results in a truly comprehensive vision of the Knight's progress. Sullivan also summarizes, in five different streams of critical tradition, the accumulated reception history of the Cave of Montesinos incident, drawing on scholarly writings from the nineteenth century to the present.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

Author: Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-09-22

Total Pages: 897

ISBN-13: 0192604732

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on—and challenges—the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.

The Death Arts in Renaissance England
The Death Arts in Renaissance England

Author: William E. Engel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-08

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 1108800394

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The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.