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The Visionary Queen

Autor Theresa Brock
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 oct 2023
The Visionary Queen affirms Marguerite de Navarre’s status not only as a political figure, author, or proponent of nonschismatic reform but also as a visionary. In her life and writings, the queen of Navarre dissected the injustices that her society and its institutions perpetuated against women. We also see evidence that she used her literary texts, especially the Heptaméron, as an exploratory space in which to generate a creative vision for institutional reform. The Heptaméron’s approach to reform emerges from statistical analysis of the text’s seventy-two tales, which reveals new insights into trends within the work, including the different categories of wrongdoing by male, institutional representatives from the Church and aristocracy, as well as the varying responses to injustice that characters in the tales employ as they pursue reform. Throughout its chapters, The Visionary Queen foregrounds the trope of the labyrinth, a potent symbol in early modern Europe that encapsulated both the fallen world and redemption, two themes that underlie Marguerite's project of reform.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781644533086
ISBN-10: 1644533081
Pagini: 238
Ilustrații: none
Dimensiuni: 230 x 152 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: University of Delaware Press

Notă biografică

THERESA BROCK is assistant professor of French Studies at Smith College. She received her PhD from Penn State and has published articles on women writers, literary genre, and religious studies in the early modern era, with particular emphasis on the sixteenth century. 

Descriere

The Visionary Queen argues that sixteenth-century noblewoman Marguerite de Navarre is more than a French author, political figure, or non-schismatic religious reformer. She is a visionary, as demonstrated in her efforts to better society, especially for women, in her literary writings (notably the Heptaméron), in her writings’ responses to her male contemporaries, and in the symbolism of the labyrinth reflected in her life and works.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Marguerite de Navarre: The Visionary Queen 

Part I: Labyrinthine Motifs in Marguerite’s Era, Endeavors, and Spiritual Outlook
1. The Labyrinth as Structure and Symbol: From Experience to Writing in the Medieval and Early Modern Contexts 
2. From the Labyrinth, a Vision: Competing Influences on Marguerite’s Religious, Political, and Creative Endeavors
3. “We Walk by Faith, Not by Sight”: Exegesis, Pilgrimage, and Labyrinthine Connections in the Reformation 

Part II: The Heptaméron as Textual Labyrinth
4. Into the Labyrinth: Mirroring Sin, Prompting Reform 
5. Down Tortuous Paths: Exploring Approaches to Justice and Reform 
6. Above the Labyrinth: A Higher Vision for Reforming the Self and Society 
Conclusion. The Empirical Reader at Labyrinth’s End: Responding to Marguerite’s Vision 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index