Lexington Books
Pages: 204
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4985-9272-7 • Hardback • January 2020 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-4985-9273-4 • eBook • January 2020 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Christopher Flavin is associate professor of English and chair of the department of languages and literature at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma.
Introduction
Chapter One: Women Writing or Writing About Women
Chapter Two: (En) Gendering Texts: The Establishment of Women’s Christian Literary Traditions
Chapter Three: Perpetua and Her Daughters: Mystics, Mothers, Martyrs, and Texts
Chapter Four: Constructing a New Self: Women, Truth, and the Rhetorical Turn of the Twelfth Century
Chapter Five: Heloise and the Rhetoric of the Self
Chapter Six: “Texts Without Bodies, Churches Without Windows”: Affective Piety in Women’s Autobiographies
Chapter Seven: Reinvigorating the Traditions: St. Teresa and the Reformation