Looking Inward: Devotional Reading and the Private Self in Late Medieval England
ISBN: 9780812201499
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Devotional literature; Self (Philosophy); Identity (Philosophical concept); England -- Religious life and customs;

Bryan examines a wide range of devotional and secular texts, from works by Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich, and Thomas Hoccleve to explore the models of identification and imitation through which they sought to reach the inmost selves of their readers, and the scripts for spiritual desire that they offered for the cultivation of the heart.


Jennifer Bryan is Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College.
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