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Racking the Body, Shaping the Text: The Account of Anne Askew in Foxes “Book of Martyrs”*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Thomas S. Freeman  and
Sarah Elizabeth Wall
Thomas S. Freeman
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Sarah Elizabeth Wall
Affiliation:
Harvard University
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Abstract

Current scholarship on Anne Askew has tended to disparage the editorial tactics of John Bale, her first editor, as intrusive and distorting. In contrast, the reprinting of her text by John Foxe, in his “Book of Martyrs, “ has been commended for its lack of editorial intervention. Yet afresh consideration of Foxes work with Askew's narrative suggests that Foxe's shaping force in the text was as strong as Bale's, if more subtle. Furthermore, attempts to locate Askew's authorial agency within one text or the other impose modern ideas about authorship on a period in which such ideas were still being formed.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 54 , Issue 4-Part1 , Winter 2001 , pp. 1165 - 1196
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 2001

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