Women and religious writing in early modern England
By: by Erica Longfellow.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Christian poetry, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; English literature -- Protestant authors -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.; Christian literature, English -- History and criticism.; Protestant women -- England -- Intellectual life.
Description: "The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums, and yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, these women were both active negotiators of gender and active participants in wider theological debates. By placing women's religious writing in a broad theological and socio-political context, Erica Longfellow challenges traditional critical assumptions about the role of gender in shaping religion and politics."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 'Blockish Adams' on mystical marriage; title: Ecce homo: the spectacle of Christ's passion in Salve deus rex judeorum; title: Serpents and doves: Lady Anne Southwell and the new Adam; title: Public worship and private thanks in Eliza's babes; title: Anna Trapnel 'sings of her lover'; title: The transfiguration of Colonel Hutchinson in Lucy Hutchinson's elegies.