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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, through the Middle Ages to the present. Gary Waller investigates Walsingham's rich tradition of literary and dramatic writing, ballads, musical compositions, novels, and legends and sets present-day Walsingham within the context of recent feminist theology and gender issues.

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ISBN-13:	9781409478607
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	05/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

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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.

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.

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A Yankee Book Peddler UK Core Title for 2011 'Many of the stories are fascinating and it is interesting to see which authors have been chosen. There is a great exploration of the writings of Erasmus, and considerable interest in the Pynson Ballad and the N-Town plays.' New Directions '... Walsingham and the English Imagination is clearly written; the scholarship is meticulous; Waller's insights are accessible and thought-provoking. This work should prove valuable for scholars of English literature, the history of religion, folk traditions, to name but a few.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Waller succeeds in his goal of straddling history and cultural studies that allows him to stay open to the phenomena of medieval spirituality and belief, while at the same time he maintains a questioning but reflective nature that takes the reader to deeper levels of textual, cultural, and historical understanding.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... this is an important book that needs to be read.' Anglican and Episcopal History '[The book contains] riches in the sections on the Renaissance and modern periods.' Journal of English and Germanic Philology ’Much in this book is fascinating... The strength of this book lies in Waller’s interpretations of texts that constructed the Shrine of Walsingham in the English imagination, starting with the Pynson ballad and Erasmus’s semi-fictional account.’ Medieval Feminist Forum

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