Women Writing the English Republic, 1625-1681

ISBN-13: 9781107149120 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 362 str.

Katharine Gillespie

Opis

The first book-length study of the contributions that women writers made to the social, cultural and philosophical milieux of seventeenth-century English republicanism.

Recenzje

'… Gillespie has provided an invaluable resource not just for ongoing debates about gender and the legacy of the English civil wars, but also for some of our deepest and most important questions about political change.' Erin Murphy, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Eleanor Davies, fifth monarchism, and the early liberal critique of tyranny; 2. Brilliana Harley, neo-stoicism, and republican motherhood in the Civil Wars; 3. Isabella Twysden and Hobbesian skepticism in the Commonwealth; 4. Anne Bradstreet's humoralism in the New England; 5. Anne Venn and seekerism in the late English republic; 6. Lucy Hutchinson, hermeticism, and republicanism in the Restoration; Conclusion.