Bible readers and lay writers in early modern England : gender and self-definition in an emergent writing culture - Narveson, Kate. (London : New York : Routledge, 2016)
Reading the Bible: clerical prescriptions and lay reading practices -- The emergence of lay composition -- Application to the self : reading and the restructuring of identity -- Recording identity: scripturalist devotion among ordinary layfolk -- Discursive horizons and the question of gender -- The devotional page and the schoolroom of print -- Grace Mildmay's meditations: love letters from God and their Scriptural authorization.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217] 232) and index.
Keywords: Bible -- Devotional use; Bible -- Reading -- England; Spiritual journals -- Authorship; Christian literature, English -- History and criticism; Gender identity -- England; Identification (Religion); England -- Church history -- 16th century; England -- Church history -- 17th century