{"product_id":"catechisms-and-womens-writing-in-seventeenthcentury-england-9781107198258","title":"Catechisms and Womens Writing in SeventeenthCentury England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatechisms and Women''s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England is a study of early modern women''s literary use of catechizing. Paula McQuade examines original works composed by women - both in manuscript and print, as well as women''s copying and redacting of catechisms - and construction of these materials from other sources. By studying female catechists, McQuade shows how early modern women used the power and authority granted to them as mothers to teach religious doctrine, to demonstrate their linguistic skills, to engage sympathetically with Catholic devotional texts, and to comment on matters of contemporary religious and political import - activities that many scholars have considered the sole prerogative of clergymen. This book addresses the question of women''s literary production in early modern England, demonstrating that reading and writing of catechisms were crucial sites of women''s literary engagements during this time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'… Paula McQuade's delightful book, a work of literary scholarship which is not only for literary scholars. Like many of her authors - women whose humanity she never forgets - her professed aims are modest: to add half-a-dozen more minor entries to the emerging canon of early modern women's writing in English, and in the process to persuade us that catechesis deserves to be taken seriously as a literary genre. As it happens, the significance of her work extends a little further than that.' Alec Ryrie, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. 'Milk for babes': catechisms and female authorship in early modern England; Part I. Domestic Catechesis and Female Authorship: 1. 'Mother bare me': catechisms and maternity in early modern England; 2. 'A tender mother': domestic catechesis in the household devotional of Katherine Fitzwilliam, circa 1603; Part II. Female Witness and Inter-Confessional Dialogue: 3. 'At Magdalin's house': maternal catechesis and female witness in the manuscript miscellany of Katherine Thomas (b. 1637); 4. Catholicism, catechesis, and coterie circulation: the manuscript of Barbara Slingsbury Talbot (b. 1633); Part III. Print and Polemic: 5. 'A knowing people': catechizing and community in Dorothy Burch's A Catechisme of the Severall Heads of the Christian Religion (1646); 6. Prophecy, catechesis, and community in Mary Cary's The Resurrection of the Witnesses (1648; reprint 1653); Epilogue.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53186729574743,"sku":"9781107198258","price":87.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/catechisms-and-womens-writing-in-seventeenthcentury-england-9781107198258","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}