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9780230228641

The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230228641

  • ISBN10:

    023022864X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-12-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

This collection of essay by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period, showing that women's roles with puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts and producing an impressive body of original writing.

Author Biography

JOHANNA HARRIS has completed her doctorate at Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK.
ELIZABETH SCOTT-BAUMANN is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and Lecturer in English at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK.

Table of Contents


List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Foreword--N.H.Keeble
Introduction--J.Harris &--E.Scott-Baumann
The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock--S.Felch
The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety--D.Clarke
Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon--L.Magnusson
Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture--E.Clarke
Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford--M.OConnor
An Ancient Mother in our Israel: Mary, Lady Vere--J.Eales
Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more: The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melvilles Puritan Poetics--S.C.E.Ross
But I thinke and beleeve: Lady Brilliana Harleys Puritanism in Epistolary Community--J.Harris
Take unto ye words: Elizabeth Ishams Booke of Rememberance and Puritan Cultural Forms--E.Longfellow
Anne Bradstreets Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire--S.Wiseman
Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Womens Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle--R.Connoll
Anna Trapnels Literary Geography--D.Purkiss
Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder--E.Scott-Baumann
Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example--N.Smith
Afterword--D.Norbrook
Bibliography
Index

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