The Catholic Church and unruly women writers
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe
Contributors: DelRosso, Jeana; Eicke, Leigh Anna; Kothe, Ana
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780230600256
Subjects: Literature -- Catholic authors -- History and criticism; Literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Catholic women authors; Christianity and literature -- Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Unruly Catholic women writers through the centuries / Jeana DelRosso, Leigh Eicke, and Ana Kothe; title: Pt. 1. Medieval through seventeenth century. Female as flesh in the later Middle Ages and the "bodily knowing" of Angela of Foligno / Jennifer Judge; title: "I grab the microphone and move my body": volatile speech, volatile bodies, and the Church's attempt to measure holiness / M.C. Bodden; title: Letters from the convent: St. Teresa of Ávila's epistolary mode / Joan F. Cammarata; title: Talking out of church: women arguing theology in Sor Juana's loa to the Divino Narciso / Jeanne Gillespie; title: Angela Carranza, would-be theologian / Stacey Schlau; title: Resituating Carvajal's Vida in protonovelistic narratives / Ana Kothe; title: pt. 2. Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through the grate; or, English convents and the transmission and preservation of female Catholic recusant history /; title: "Must her own words do all?": domesticity, Catholicism, and activism in Adelaide Anne Procter's poems / Tonya Moutray McArthur; title: The legacy of Leveau in the practice of Helen Prejean: the tradition and territory of New Orleans' spiritual advisors / Barbara Eckstein; title: pt. 3. Twentieth and twenty-first centuries. "Reluctant Catholics": contemporary Irish-American women writers / Sally Barr Ebest; title: Marie-Claire Blais revises John Keats: Sadean moments and anti-Catholic sentiment in Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel / Ben P. Robertson; title: Catholicism's other(ed) Holy Trinity: race, class, and gender in black Catholic girl school narratives / Jeana DelRosso; title: Challenging Catholicism: Hagar vs. the virgin in Graciela Limón's The memories of Ana Calderó / Mary Jane Suero-Elliott; title: Dis-robing the priest: gender and spiritual conversions in Louise Erdrich's The last report on the miracles at Little No Horse / Pamela J. Rader