The Virgin Mary in late medieval and early modern English literature and popular culture / Gary Waller.

Author/creator Waller, Gary F., 1945-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxii, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--In literature.
English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500. --History and criticism.
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.

Contents 1538 and after : the Virgin Mary in the century of iconoclasm -- The Virgin Mary in late medieval culture to 1538. The sexualization of the Virgin in the late Middle Ages -- The Virgin's body in late medieval poetry, romance, and drama -- Walsingham or Falsingham, Woolpit or Foulpit?: Marian shrines and pilgrimage before 1538 -- Fades, traces : transformations of the Virgin in early modern England. Fades : Elizabethan ruins, tunes, ballads, poems -- Traces : English Petrarchism and the veneration of the Virgin -- Traces : Shakespeare and the Virgin : All's well that ends well, Pericles, and The Winter's tale -- Multiple Madonnas : traces and transformations in the seventeenth century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 210-231) and index.
ISBN9780521762960 (hbk.)
ISBN0521762960 (hbk.)