Women and religious writing in early modern England / by Erica Longfellow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longfellow, Erica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Christian poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, English.

Christianity and literature--England--History--17th century.

Christianity and literature.

English literature--Protestant authors--History and criticism.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Women and literature--England--History--17th century.

Women and literature.

Christian literature, English--History and criticism.

Christian literature, English.

Protestant women--England--Intellectual life.

Protestant women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Women & Religious Writing in Early Modern England

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have frequently been uncomfortable with the fact that conservative religious beliefs created opportunities for women to write with independent agency. The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums and yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, Lady Anne Southwell, Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hutchinson, among others, were both active negotiators of gender and active participants in wider theological debates. By placing women's religious writing in a broad theological and socio-political context, Erica Longfellow challenges traditional critical assumptions about the role of gender in shaping religion and politics and the role of women in defining gender and thus influencing religion and politics.

Contents:

'Blockish Adams' on mystical marriage

Ecce homo: the spectacle of Christ's passion in Salve deus rex judeorum

Serpents and doves: Lady Anne Southwell and the new Adam

Public worship and private thanks in Eliza's babes

Anna Trapnel 'sings of her lover'

The transfiguration of Colonel Hutchinson in Lucy Hutchinson's elegies.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-16175-4

1-280-70314-8

0-511-23139-3

0-511-23062-1

0-511-22900-3

0-511-32736-6

0-511-48370-8

0-511-22984-4

OCLC:

252530046