Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain / by C. Gray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Catharine, 1966-

Series:

Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700, 2634-5900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.

European literature.

Sex.

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

European Literature.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.

European Literature.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2007.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Crossing Borders: From Private Dialogue to Public Debate; 1 The Zealous Mother: Dorothy Leigh and the Godly Family; 2 At "Liberty to Preach in the Chambers": Sarah Wight, Henry Jessey, and the New-Modeled Community of Saints; 3 The Knowing Few: Katherine Philips and the Courtly Coterie; 4 New England Becoming Old: Anne Bradstreet and the Coterie of Ghosts; Scattering and Gathering in Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers: Conclusions; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611363567

9781281363565

1281363561

9780230605565

0230605567

OCLC:

560443052