Sanctified subversives
Subtitle: nuns in early modern English and Spanish literature
By: by Horacio Sierra
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781443891127
Subjects: Nuns in literature; English literature; History and criticism; Spanish literature; Early modern; Classical period
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early modern nuns in context; title: Reclaiming Isabella, the queer virgin: celebrating Catholicism's opportunities in Measure for measure; title: Convents as feminist utopias: Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure and the potential of closeted dramas and communities; title: The Sarao as conventual rhetorical space in María De Zaya's Desengaños amorosos; title: Straddling the secular and spiritual divide: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's life and literature; title: Extraconventual escapades: erstwhile nuns in Erauso's and Behn's fictions.