Political speaking justified : women prophets and the English Revolution / Teresa Feroli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feroli, Teresa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women.

Intellectual life.

Women prophets.

History.

Women--Political activity.

Historiography.

Great Britain--History--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Historiography.

Great Britain.

English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English prose literature.

English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English prose literature--Women authors.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Political science--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Political science.

Women prophets--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.

Women--Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.

Fell, Margaret, 1614-1702.

Fell, Margaret.

Douglas, Eleanor, Lady, -1652.

Douglas, Eleanor.

Trapnel, Anna.

Physical Description:

270 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2006]

Contents:

Introduction: political speaking justified

In the name of the Father: divine right and women's rights

Sodomy and female authority: the Castlehaven scandal and Lady Eleanor's The restitution of prophecy (1651)

The semiotics of fasting in Anna Trapnel's The cry of a stone (1654)

Margaret Fell's Womens speaking justified and Quaker ideas of female subjectivity

Epilogue: Mary Astell's "History of women"

Appendix: provisional checklist of women prophets' published writings, 1625-1667.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-259) and index.

ISBN:

0874139082

OCLC:

60454016

Publisher Number:

9780874139082