The worlds of William Penn / edited by Andrew R. Murphy and John Smolenski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murphy, Andrew R., 1967- editor.

Smolenski, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penn, William, 1644-1718.

Penn, William.

Penn, William, 1644-1718--Influence.

Pioneers--Pennsylvania--Biography.

Pioneers.

Quakers--Pennsylvania--Biography.

Quakers.

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

Pennsylvania.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 428 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Edited collection taking a wide-ranging look at William Penn's life and legacy, spanning everything from art history to literature, to history, to political theory, to American studies, to British studies."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Materials, History, Memory

1 The Elusive Body of William Penn p. 13 / Elizabeth Milroy

2 Where William Penn Slept (and Why It Matters) p. 49 / Catharine Dann Roeber

3 Beyond the Bounds: Exploitation and Empire in the First Map of Pennsylvania p. 68 / Emily Mann

Part II Irish Worlds

4 William Penn, William Petty, and Surveying: The Irish Connection p. 101 / Marcus Gallo

5 The Irish Worlds of William Penn: Culture, Conflict, and Connections p. 120 / Audrey Horning

6 The Roads to and from Cork: The Irish Origins of William Penn's Theory of Religious Toleration p. 139 / Andrew R. Murphy

Part III Restoration Worlds

7 New Worlds and Holy Experiments in the Restoration Literature of Milton, Bunyan, and Penn p. 155 / Elizabeth Sauer

8 William Penn and James II p. 171 / Scott Sowerby

9 William Penn, German Pietist(?) p. 190 / Patrick M. Erben

Part IV American Worlds

10 "Rancontyn Marenit": Lenape Peacemaking before William Penn p. 217 / Michael Goods

11 William Penn, John Winthrop, and Colonial Political Science p. 232 / Alexander Mazzaferro

12 Religion and Revolution in New England: 1689 p. 248 / Sarah A. Morgan Smith

Part V Quaker Worlds

13 William Penn as Preface Writer, Historian, and Controversialist p. 267 / Catie Gill

14 Quakers, Puritans, and the Problem of Godly Loyalty in the Early Restoration p. 283 / Adrian Chastain Weimer

15 From Puritan to Quaker: Mary Dyer and Puritan-Quaker Conversion in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic p. 303 / Rachel Love Monroy

Part VI Imperial Worlds

16 Pennsylvania's Religious Freedom in Comparative Colonial Context p. 333 / Evan Haefeli

17 William Penn and Security Communities: A Career p. 355 / Patrick Cecil

18 William Penn's Imperial Landscape: Improvement, Political Economy, and Colonial Agriculture in the Pennsylvania Project p. 378 / Shuichi Wanibuchi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781978801813

1978801815

9781978801776

1978801777

OCLC:

1027770379