Women�s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367877835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Carme Font

Opis

This study examines women’s prophetic writings in seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse of social transformation that integrates religious conscience, political participation, and gender identity. The following pages approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for collective change as the individual pr

Spis treści

Introduction: The Culture of Prophecy in the English Reformation

Defining Seventeenth-century Prophecy

The Woman Prophet and the Religious Culture of Seventeenth-Century Britain

Part 1. Politicum

1 Prophetic Politics and Revolutionary Culture

2 Women’s Prophetic Ministry

3 Confronting Parliament with the Word: The Case for Elizabeth Poole

4 Politically Incorrect Prophecy

Part 2. Protean Feminisms

5 Prophecy and Personal Conscience

6 Exposing the Prophetic Word

7 The Prophetic Poetry of Anna Trapnel

8 Obstat Sexus

Part 3. In-Communications

9 Prophetic Word Vision: Lady Eleanor Davies and Textual Bi-location

10 The Soul’s Flight of Jane Lead

11 Prophecy and the Transmutation of Suffering

12 Prophetic Activism

Conclusion: Old Sectaries, New Prophetesses

O autorze

Carme Font is Lecturer in English Literature at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She is also Research Associate at the UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies. She has published articles on early modern women writing, and co-edited Mightier than the Spoon is the Pen: Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Europe Before 1800.