The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 [electronic resource] /
Harris, J.editor.
Scott-Baumann, E.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / J. Harris and 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. O'Connor -- 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 Melville's Puritan poetics / Sarah C. E. Ross -- 'But I thinke and beleeve' : Lady Brilliana Harley's Puritanism in epistolary community / J. Harris -- 'Take unto ye words' : Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' and Puritan cultural forms / E. Longfellow -- Anne Bradstreet's Poetry and Providence : earth, wind, and fire / S. Wiseman -- Viscountess Ranelagh and the authorisation of women's knowledge in the Hartlib Circle / R. Connoll -- Anna Trapnel's 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.
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.
Literature, Modern.
Great Britain-History.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Social history.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Medieval Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Social History.