Katharine Gillespie, Gillespie Katharine

Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century

English Women Writers and the Public Sphere

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521120227
• ISBN-10: 0521120225
• Artikelnr.: 26571809

Autorenporträt

Katharine Gillespie is Assistant Professor of seventeenth-century transatlantic and early modern women's literature at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles in Genders, Bunyan Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Symbiosis.

Inhaltsangabe

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.