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English women's spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700new kingdoms of womanhood /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	English women's spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700by Alexandra Verini.
Reminder of title:	new kingdoms of womanhood /
Author:	Verini, Alexandra.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xiii, 223 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	UtopiasEarly works to 1800.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00917-4
ISBN:	9783031009174$q(electronic bk.)

English women's spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700new kingdoms of womanhood /
Verini, Alexandra.

English women's spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700new kingdoms of womanhood /[electronic resource] :by Alexandra Verini. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xiii, 223 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - New Middle Ages,2945-5944. - New Middle Ages..

Chapter 1: Mirrors of our Lady: Utopia in the Medieval Convent -- Chapter 2: These Most Afflicted Sisters: Old and New Futures in Exiled English Convents -- Chapter 3: Not Yet: Aspirational Women's Communities Beyond the Convent -- Chapter 4: Convents of Pleasure: English Women's Literary Utopias.

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-feminist futures. The utopianism developed within the English convent percolated outwards to unenclosed women's spiritual communities such as Mary Ward's Institute of the Blessed Virgin and the Ferrar family at Little Gidding. Convent-based utopianism further acted as an unrecognized influence on the first English women's literary utopias by authors such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell. Collectively, these female communities forged a mode of utopia that drew on the past to imagine new possibilities for themselves as well as for their larger religious and political communities. Tracking utopianism from the convent to the literary page over a period of 300 years, New Kingdoms writes a new history of medieval and early modern women's intellectual work and expands the concept of utopia itself.

ISBN: 9783031009174$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-00917-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

929534
Utopias
--Early works to 1800.

LC Class. No.: HX806

Dewey Class. No.: 321.07

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