The Maudlin Impression

Patricia Badir

Description

Patricia Badir's The Maudlin Impression investigates the figure of Mary Magdalene in post-medieval English religious writings and visual representations. Badir argues that the medieval Magdalene story was not discarded as part of Reformation iconoclasm, but was enthusiastically embraced by English writers and artists and retold in a wide array of genres. This rich study bridges the historical division between medieval and early modern culture by showing the ways in which Protestant writers, as well as Catholics, used the medieval stories, art, and symbolism related to the biblical Magdalene as resources for thinking about the role of the affective and erotic in Christian devotion. Their literary and artistic glosses protected a range of religious devotional practices and lent embodied, tangible form to the God of the Reformation. They employed the Magdalene figure to articulate religious experience by means of a poetics that could avoid controversial questions of religious art while exploring the potency and appeal of the beautiful.

The Maudlin Impression is a literary history of imitation and invention. It participates in the "religious turn" in early modern studies by demonstrating the resilience of a single topos across time and across changing Christian beliefs.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Christian Theology
• Literary Criticism
• Idioma inglés
• Idioma galés
• Protestantism
• Mariology
• General officer
• Protestant Reformation
• Mary Magdalene
• Irish
• English
• Church of England
• Christianity
• General
• Réformation
• European
• Welsh
• Scottish
• Musique irlandaise
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780268075743
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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The Maudlin Impression

PATRICIA BADIR

T h e M a u d l i n I m p r e s s i o n

m e d i e va l a n d e a r ly m o d e r n

Series Editors: David Aers, Sarah Beckwith, and James Simpson

T h e M a u d l i n I m p r e s s i o n

English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550 –1700

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Pa t r i c i a B a d i r

University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

Copyright ©2009by Universit y of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved

Manufactured in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Some portions of chapters1and3, revised and adapted for this volume, were originally published in “ ‘To allure vnto their loue’: Iconoclasm and Striptease in Lewis Wager’sThe Life and Repentaunce of Marie Magdalene,”Theatre Journal51:1 (1999), copyright ©1999y Press; and in “MedievalThe Johns Hopkins Universit Poetics and Protestant Magdalenes,” inReading the Medieval in Early Modern England,edited by Gordon McMullan and David Matthews (Cambridge: Cambridge Universit y Press,2007), copyright ©2007Cambridge Universit y Press.

Badir, Patricia,1976 – The Maudlin impression : English literary images of Mary Magdalene,1550/1700/ Patricia Badir. p. cm. — ( ReFormations: medieval and early modern) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-268-02215-0( pbk. : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-268-02215-1: alk. paper)( pbk. 1. English literature —Early modern,1500 –1700—History and criticism. 2. Christian literature, English —History and criticism.3. Mary Magdalene, Saint —In literature.4. Idols and images in literature.5. Iconoclasm in literature. 6. Christianit y and literature —Great Britain —History —16th century. 7y and literature —Great Britain —History —. Christianit 17I. Title.th century. pr428.c48b33 2009 820.9'351— dc22

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∞The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

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List of Figuresix Note on Editions, Spellings, and Punctuation Acknowledgmentsxvii

Introduction: Creeping After the Cart

chapter 1.The Look of Love

chapter 2.Touch Me Not

chapter 3.The Task of Beauty

chapter 4.Penance in a Sheet

chapter 5.She’s a Nice Piece of Work

Postscript: A Something Else Thereby

Notes221 Bibliography Index290

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f i g u r e s

f i g u r e 1 . Maestro della Maddalena,Maddalena penitente e otto storie della sua vita(1280 –85). Gallerie dell’ Accademia, Florence. Photograph: Scala/Art Resource, New York.

f i g u r e 2 . Giuliano da Rimini,Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (1307). Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

f i g u r e 3 . Correggio,The Magdalen(c.1518–19). The National Gallery, London.

f i g u r e 4 . Isaac Oliver,The Penitent Magdalene(1556 –1617). © The Trustees of the British Museum, London.

f i g u r e 5 . Tiziano Vecellio,Repentant Mary Magdalene(1560s). © The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.

f i g u r e 6 . Rogier van der Weyden,The Magdalen Reading( before1438). The National Gallery, London.

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