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, England
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-211) and index.
Table of contents: value: Justification cannot be self-justification : Katherine Chidley and the discourses of religious toleration; value: Agency in crisis : women write the regicide; value: A woman in the business of revolutionary news : Elizabeth Alkin, "Parliament Joan", and the Commonwealth newsbook; value: Clothing the naked woman : writing women's agency in revolutionary England; value: Gender identities and women's agency in early modern tithe dispute.