Title The intellectual culture of Puritan women, 1558-1680 / edited by Johanna Harris and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource Series Early modern literature in history Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) Contents The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock / S. Felch -- The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety / D. Clarke -- Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon / L. Magnusson -- Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture / E. Clarke -- Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford / M.O'Connor -- 'An Ancient Mother in our Israel': Mary, Lady Vere / J. Eales -- 'Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more': The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melville's Puritan Poetics / S.C.E. Ross -- 'But I thinke and beleeve': Lady Brilliana Harley's Puritanism in Epistolary Community / J. Harris -- 'Take unto ye words': Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' and Puritan Cultural Forms / E. Longfellow -- Anne Bradstreet's Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire / S. Wiseman -- Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Women's Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle / R. Connoll -- Anna Trapnel's Literary Geography / D. Purkiss -- Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder / E. Scott-Baumann -- Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example / N. Smith -- Afterword / D. Norbrook Summary This is the first study of puritan women's place in early modern intellectual culture. Puritan women have suffered a double prejudice: that women were excluded from male culture, and that puritanism was hostile to many forms of culture. This collection argues that early modern women's puritanism formed and developed rather than prohibited their substantial and leading contributions to their culture. The essays introduce recently discovered writers such as Elizabeth Isham and Elizabeth Melville and new analyses of well-known writers such as Lady Mary Sidney Herbert and Anne Locke, and also highlight the local, national, and international dimensions of early modern puritan culture. With a foreword by N.H. Keeble and afterword by David Norbrook and fifteen essays by leading scholars of early modern literature and history, this collection reveals an intellectual culture characterized by networks of patronage, translation, manuscript circulation and correspondence "This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period, showing that women's roles with puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts and producing an impressive body of original writing"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Puritan women -- England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century Puritan women -- England -- Intellectual life -- 16th century Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Literature. English literature -- Early modern English literature -- Puritan authors English literature -- Women authors England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Harris, Johanna I. (Johanna Ina), 1980- Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth, 1982- ISBN 9780230289727 023028972X 1349310204 9781349310203

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