Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women Writers and the Public Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780521830638 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 286 str.

Katharine Gillespie (Miami University)

Opis

Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration and the separation of church from state, as well as the issues of privacy and individualism. Gillespie's analysis of "pamphlet literatures" of the seventeenth century contributes to the scholarship on revolutionary writings that emerged during the volatile years of England's mid-seventeenth-century Civil War.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'Still, it is a scholarly and passionate intervention in a debate which runs high, especially in America …' The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction: Sabrina versus the state; 1. 'Born of the Mother's seed': Liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism; 2. A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state; 3. Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophesies of Elizabeth Poole; 4. The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the 'rise' of the sovereign individual; 5. Improving God's estate: preaching and the possessive economy in the writings of Mary Cary.