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The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680

Beschreibung

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

Autor

DANIELLE CLARKE Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ELIZABETH CLARKE Reader in English, University of Warwick, UK RUTH CONNOLLY Research Associate in English Literature, Newcastle University, UK MARION O'CONNOR Senior Lecturer in English, University of Kent, UK JACQUELINE EALES Professor of Early Modern History, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK SUSAN FELCH Professor of English Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI, USA N. H. KEEBLE Professor of English Studies and Senior Deputy Principal, Stirling University, UK ERICA LONGFELLOW Senior Lecturer, Kingston University, UK LYNNE MAGNUSSON Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada DAVID NORBROOK Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK DIANE PURKISS Tutor and Fellow in English, Keble College, University of Oxford, UK SARAH C. E. ROSS Lecturer in English and Media Studies, Massey University, New Zealand NIGEL SMITH Professor of English, Princeton University, USA SUSAN WISEMAN Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Produktdetails

• Early Modern Literature in History
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-22864-1
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780230228641
• ISBN-10: 023022864X
• Artikelnr.: 29738148

Rezensionen

"The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women provides fifteen fascinating vignettes of prominent female thinkers. The editors do not attempt an over-arching definition of a Puritan, but each individual chapter justifies its subject's claim to that title, building up a composite picture of a formidable godly femininity." David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement

"The end result is impressive: methodologically wide-ranging and interpretatively innovative, this collection offers genuinely new insight not only into the nature of Puritanism, and of women's role within the Puritan movement, but also into the position of women more generally (and thus the nature of patriarchy) in late Tudor and Stuart England" Tim Harris, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms

"The influence of the widening scholarship of the last thirty years on early modern women writers is evident in all the essays in this collection, yet they succeed in finding fresh and inspiring perspectives into women's intellectual lives, often balancing biographical and literary interests. By looking closely at fourteen women, they succeed admirably in demonstrating that there is much more to know than we have so far assumed about Puritanism's support for women's intellectual culture." Anu Korhonen, Renaissance Quarterly