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oapen-20.500.12657-496472022-01-25T10:58:35Z Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings Frick, Deborah Gender Authority Authorship Visionary Writings Voice Literature British Studies Literary Studies bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Carey, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorised themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions. 2021-06-21T13:37:00Z 2021-06-21T13:37:00Z 2021 book ONIX_20210621_9783839456897_12 9783839456897 9783837656893 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49647 eng Lettre application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9783839456897.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839456897 10.14361/9783839456897 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9783839456897 9783837656893 transcript Verlag 156 Bielefeld [grantnumber unknown] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Carey, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorised themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions.
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