Anne Hutchinson : Puritan prophet / Timothy D. Hall ; edited by Mark C. Carnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hall, Timothy D., 1955-

Contributor:

Carnes, Mark C. (Mark Christopher), 1950-

Series:

Library of American biography (New York, N.Y.)

The library of American biography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hutchinson, Anne, 1591-1643.

Hutchinson, Anne.

Puritans--Massachusetts--Biography.

Puritans.

Freedom of religion.

Social reformers.

Women.

Massachusetts.

Women--Massachusetts--Biography.

Social reformers--Massachusetts--Biography.

Antinomianism.

Freedom of religion--Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

History.

Massachusetts--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 179 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson, [2010]

Summary:

Longman is proud to publish the Library of American Biography series, offering ideal reading for introductory and upper-level courses in American history. These concise biographies focus on individuals whose actions and ideas greatly influenced American history and relate the lives of the subjects to the issues and events of their times.

Under series editor Mark C. Carries, the Library of American Biography series is being revised and updated with today's students in mind. AH volumes are offered at a lower price, and each new volume includes Study and Discussion Questions, which encourage readers to reflect on the role of the profiled individual in shaping American history.

Drawing upon the latest scholarship, Timothy D. Hall presents Anne Hutchinson as a literate, highly intelligent agent of a militant Protestant vanguard pressing to extend English influence into Colonial North America. Hall examines the charges brought against Hutchinson and analyzes her responses to them. He also discusses her influence in other communities after her trial and subsequent expulsion from the Massachusetts Bay colony, concluding with an exploration of her role as an icon of American history.

Features

Focusing on the Atlantic context of Colonial American history, this biography offers fresh insight into the varied and clashing strains of English Protestantism, exploring its impact on the experiences of early modern English women and its role in the development of the United States.

Hall places Hutchinson's arrival in Boston within the context of the Great Migration to New England, examining the impulses that prompted so many to migrate and the dynamics of community life in the fledgling colony.

The book explores Hutchinson's religious activities within the context of transatlantic Puritanism and the specific theological and social environment of Boston in the mid-1630s, probing the gender dimensions of the famed trial and considering what the proceedings reveal about the tensions and dynamics of Puritanism in Boston and militant Protestantism in the Atlantic World.

Study and Discussion Questions at the end of the book help students check their reading and comprehension. These questions can also be used to facilitate discussions in the classroom or student study groups.

A full list of the titles in the Library of American Biography series appears on the inside back cover of this book.

Contents:

Editor's preface

Author's preface

Growing up Puritan in Elizabethan England

Anne Hutchinson and the church militant

"A profitable member among us"

Secret quarrels

Trouble in churches and commonwealth

Trial

"A dayngerus instrument of the divell"

Epilogue: "The sainted Anne Hutchinson".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780321476210

0321476212

OCLC:

213835377