Gary Waller

Walsingham and the English Imagination (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, medieval England's most significant pilgrimage site devoted to the Virgin Mary, which was revived in the twentieth century, and in 2006 voted Britain's favorite religious site. Covering Walsingham's origins, destruction, and transformations from the Middle Ages to the present, Gary Waller pursues his investigation not through a standard history but by analyzing the "invented traditions" and varied re-creations of Walsingham by the "English imagination"- poems, fiction, songs, ballads, musical compositions and folk legends, solemn devotional writings and hostile satire which Walsingham has inspired, by Protestants, Catholics, and religious skeptics alike. They include, in early modern England, Erasmus, Ralegh, Sidney, and Shakespeare; then, during Walsingham's long "protestantization" from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, ballad revivals, archeological investigations, and writings by Agnes Strickland, Edmund Waterton, and Hopkins; and in the modern period, writers like Eliot, Charles Williams, Robert Lowell, and A.N. Wilson. The concluding chapter uses contemporary feminist theology to view Walsingham not just as a symbol of nostalgia but a place inviting spiritual change through its potential sexual and gender transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317000617
• Artikelnr.: 44815757

Autorenporträt

Gary Waller, Professor of Literature, Cultural Studies and Theatre, Purchase College, SUNY, has written many studies of early modern literature. He is currently exploring interconnections among history, psychoanalysis, and theology.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Historical imagination: the invented tradition of Our Lady of Walsingham
Gynotheological imagination: the Virgin's body and the alternate Mariologies of late medieval Walsingham
Walsingham's Chaucer: Erasmus's Peregrinatio Religionis Ergo
'As you came from Walsingham': Walsingham in poetry and music after the Dissolution
The Protestantization of Walsingham
Walsingham's Victorian Chaucer
Agnes Strickland's The Pilgrims of Walsingham
Re-Catholicization: Walsingham in literature from Hopkins and Waterton to A.N. Wilson
Alternate, post-modern, feminist Mary(ies)? Imagining Walsingham today
Works cited
Index.