Katherine Parr , Janel Mueller (Editor)
Katherine Parr: Complete Works And Correspondence
- ISBN 13:
- 9780226213798
- author:
- Katherine Parr , Janel Mueller (Editor)
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 656
- Dimensions:
- 17.8 x 3.8 x 25.4 cm
- Genre:
- History, Britain & Ireland, Early Modern 1501-1700 (Tudors, Stuarts, Commonwealth, Restoration, Glorious Revolution)
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Katherine Parr's Complete Works and Correspondence presents a significant collection of her writings, including Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts. This new edition brings together Parr's literary labors for the first time, alongside her extensive correspondence, which is collected here in its entirety. Janel Mueller's meticulous scholarship has rendered Parr's sixteenth-century English for modern readers, providing valuable background on the circumstances of and references in Parr's letters and compositions. The result is a comprehensive volume that sheds new light on this often-overlooked figure from Tudor England. This edition will be an event in the English publishing world, making an immediate contribution to fields such as sixteenth-century literature, reformation studies, women's writing, and Tudor politics.
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