The intellectual culture of Puritan women, 1558-1680
By: edited by Johanna Harris and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780230228641
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: English literature; Intellectual life; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors; Women authors; Puritan authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Puritan women
Description: "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, showing that women's roles with puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts and producing an impressive body of original writing"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Notes on contributors; title: List of abbreviations; title: Foreword; title: N.H.Keeble; title: Introduction; title: J.Harris & E.Scott-Baumann; title: The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock; title: S.Felch; title: The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety; title: D.Clarke; title: Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon; title: L.Magnusson; title: Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture; title: E.Clarke; title: Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford; title: M.OConnor; title: An Ancient Mother in our Israel: Mary, Lady Vere; title: J.Eales; title: Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more: The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melvilles Puritan Poetics; title: S.C.E.Ross; title: But I thinke and beleeve: Lady Brilliana Harleys Puritanism in Epistolary Community; title: J.Harris; title: Take unto ye words: Elizabeth Ishams Booke of Rememberance and Puritan Cultural Forms; title: E.Longfellow; title: Anne Bradstreets Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire; title: S.Wiseman; title: Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Womens Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle; title: R.Connoll; title: Anna Trapnels Literary Geography; title: D.Purkiss; title: Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder; title: E.Scott-Baumann; title: Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example; title: N.Smith; title: Afterword; title: D.Norbrook; title: Bibliography; title: Index.