Appropriating A Female Voice: Nicholas Breton And The Countess Of Pembroke

• Authors: REGHINA DASCĂL
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The sixteenth century author Nicholas Breton appropriates a female voice in many of his writings, among which Marie Magdalens Loue and The Pilgrimage to Paradise joyned with the Countesse of Penbrookes Loue feature prominently. The Countess of Pembroke, celebrated by Aemilia Lanyer in her Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum as a paragon of female religious devotion, is often associated in Breton's texts with Mary Magdalene. This paper will analyse some of the anxieties engendered by this appropriation of voice and of the Magdalene figure, anxieties that prove to be disruptive of Elizabethan gender hierarchies.

Keywords

EN

female mystics; Mary Magdalene; penitence; ventriloquized female voices

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 48-65

Dates

published

2014-12-01

online

2015-03-25

Contributors

author

REGHINA DASCĂL

• West University of Timişoara, Romania, 4, V. Pârvan Blvd, 300223 Timişoara

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/genst-2015-0004