Julian of Norwich the best-known of the medieval mystics today. The text of her Revelation has circulated continually since the fifteenth century, but the twentieth century saw a massive expansion of her popularity. Theological or literary-historical studies of Julian may remark in passing on her popularity, but none have attempted a detailed study of her reception. This collection fills that gap: it outlines the full reception history from the extant manuscripts to the present day, looking at Julian in devotional cultures, in modernist poetry and present-day popular literature, and in her iconography in Norwich, both as a pilgrimage site and a tourist attraction.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction; S.Salih & D.N.Baker Julian of Norwich and Her Children Today: Editions, Translations and Versions of her Revelations; A.Barratt From Anchorhold to Closet: Julian of Norwich in 1670 and the Immanence of the Past; J.Summit W. B. Yeats and a Certain Mystic of the Middle Ages; A.Cuda The Fire and the Rose: Theodicy in Eliot and Julian of Norwich; J.Spears Brooker Julie Norwich and Julian of Norwich: Annie Dillard’s Theodicy in Holy the Firm; D.N.Baker Julian of Norwich in Popular Fiction; S.M.Chewning Playing Julian: The Cell as Theatre in Contemporary Culture; J.Jenkins ‘A Great Woman in our Future’: Julian of Norwich’s Function in Late-Twentieth-Century Spirituality; C.Whitehead Julian in Norwich: Heritage and Iconography; S.Salih In the Centre: Spiritual and Cultural Representations of of Julian of Norwich in the Julian Centre; S.Law
Circa l’autore
SRARAH SALIH is Senior Lecturer in English at King’s College London, UK
. DENISE N. BAKER is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA.