TY - BOOK AU - Narveson,Kate TI - Bible readers and lay writers in early modern England: gender and self-definition in an emergent writing culture T2 - Material readings in early modern culture SN - 9781138246638 (pbk.) U1 - 274.206 23 PY - 2016/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Bible KW - Devotional use KW - Reading KW - England KW - Spiritual journals KW - Authorship KW - Christian literature, English KW - History and criticism KW - Gender identity KW - Identification (Religion) KW - Church history KW - 16th century KW - 17th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [217] 232) and index; 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 ER -