Male authors, female readers
English prose literature, history and criticism
Women, prayers and devotions
Male authors
English prose literature
Women, great britain
Sex differences
Devotional literature
Prayer-books and devotions
Prayers and devotions
Women and literature
Books and reading
Authorship
English
Women
History and criticism
History
Although written to increase their female audience's religious fervor, devotional texts implicitly promoted cultural values drawn from other discourses as well. Within the same text, Bartlett shows, a woman reader might be invited to identify not only with the temptress reviled by misogynistic ascet…
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