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Flesh and spirit : an anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing / edited by Rachel Adcock, Sara Read and Anna Ziomek.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--17th century.
- English literature.
- English literature--Women authors.
- Women--Great Britain--Literary collections.
- Women.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 269 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- "This anthology makes accessible to readers ten little-known and under-studied works by seventeenth-century women (edited from manuscript and print) that explore the relationship between spiritual and physical health in the period. Providing a detailed and engaging introduction to the issues confronted when studying women's writing from this century, the anthology also examines female interpretations of illness, exploring beliefs that toothache and miscarriage could be God's punishments, but also, paradoxically, that such terrible suffering could be understood as proof that a believer was eternally beloved. Many of the extracts in the anthology present illness as an important part of women's conversion, confirming their religious beliefs, but some women interpreted bodily dysfunction as the result of the Devil's temptations, in some cases leading them to practise starvation and attempt suicide."--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Part I Exemplary conversion narratives
- 1 Lady Mary Carey 37
- Meditations and poetry (1647-57) 42
- 2 Elizabeth Major 58
- Honey on the Rod: Or a Comfortable Contemplation for One in Affliction; with Sundry Poems on Several Subjects (1656) 61
- Sin and Mercy Briefly Discovered: Or, The Veil Taken a Little from Before Both (1656) 76
- 3 Gertrude More 81
- The Holy Practises of a Devine Lover or the Sainctly Ideots Devotions (1657) 84
- The Spiritual Exercises of the Most Vertuous and Religious D. Gertrude More of the Holy Order of S. Bennet and English Congregation of our Ladies of Comfort in Cambray (1658) 86
- Part II Advising on body and spirit
- 4 Elizabeth Clinton, Countess of Lincoln 105
- The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (1622) 110
- 5 Brilliana, Lady Harley 122
- The commonplace book of Brilliana Conway (1622) 126
- Letters (1625-43) 129
- 6 'Eliza' 144
- Eliza's Babes: Or the Virgins-Offering (1652) 146
- 7 An anonymous gentlewoman 174
- Conversion Exemplified; In the Instance of a Gracious Gentlewoman Now in Glory (1663) 178
- Part III Conversion and cure
- 8 Lady Elizabeth Delaval 197
- Meditations and prayers (1663-71) 200
- 9 Katherine Sutton 218
- A Christian Womans Experiences of the Glorious Working of Gods Free Grace (1663) 221
- 10 Hannah Allen 236
- A Narrative of God's Gracious Dealings with that Choice Christian Mrs. Hannah Allen (1683) 240.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719090233
- 0719090237
- OCLC:
- 875151685
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