Figuring modesty in feminist discourse across the Americas, 1633-1700 / Tamara Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, Tamara, 1966-

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world.

Women and gender in the early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--17th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

America--Literatures--History and criticism.

America.

America--Literatures--Women authors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot : Ashgate, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Inventive in its approach, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey offers a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by women, and explores how these women engaged in ongoing religious, political, scientific and social debates of the time.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Modesty's Charge: Feminist Functionalism and Seventeenth-Century Feminist Theory; 1 "Now Sisters ... impart your usefulnesse, and force": Anne Bradstreet's Feminist Functionalism; 2 "Cuerpo Luminoso": Body and Soul in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Primero Sueño; 3 "I doe not thinke the Body that dyes shall rise agayne": Anne Hutchinson's Mortalism as Feminist Functionalism; 4 Femmes fortes: Mysticism and the Female Apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-93652-2

1-351-93653-0

1-315-25526-X

1-281-76590-2

9786611765903

0-7546-8117-3

9781315255262

OCLC:

323304445