Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660
By: by Marcus Andrew Nevitt.
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Pamphlets -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Women in politics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century; Pamphleteers -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Pamphlets -- Authorship -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Historiography
Description: "Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, have recently been located among the most inclusive or democratic aspects of the social life of early modern England, this study provides a more gender-sensitive picture. Marcus Nevitt argues instead that throughout the revolutionary decades pamphlet culture was actually constructed around the public silence and exclusion of women.

In support of his thesis, he discusses more familiar seventeenth-century authors such as John Milton, John Selden and Thomas Edwards in relation to the less canonical but equally forceful writings of Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Mary Pope, 'Parliament Joan' and a large number of Quaker women."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Justification cannot be self-justification : Katherine Chidley and the discourses of religious toleration; title: Agency in crisis : women write the regicide; title: A woman in the business of revolutionary news : Elizabeth Alkin, "Parliament Joan", and the Commonwealth newsbook; title: Clothing the naked woman : writing women's agency in revolutionary England; title: Gender identities and women's agency in early modern tithe dispute.