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The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680
Early Modern Literature in History
ISBN/EAN: 9780230228641
Umbreit-Nr.: 2379898
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xxii, 254 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 24.11.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
- Zusatztext
- 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. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.
- Kurztext
- Features contributions from leading scholars in the field, including Nigel Smith, Susan Felch, Danielle Clarke, David Norbrook and Lynne MagnessonWill develop our understanding of women's writing and offer a balance to the focus on the culture of women at courtTimely in its interdisciplinarity - will appeal to social, cultural and book historians, literary scholars, gender studies and theologiansOffers a new critical apparatus for the study of early modern puritan women, demonstrating how integral they were to their intellectual communitiesWill cast a new perspective on major women writers (such as Mary Sidney Herbert and Lucy Russell) as well as bringing to light important new figures and textsHighlights the local, national, and international dimensions of early modern puritan culture Uses analysis and substantial quotation of previously unpublished primary sources
- Autorenportrait
- DANIELLE CLARKE Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ELIZABETH CLARKE Reader in English, University of Warwick, UK RUTH CONNOLLY Research Associate in English Literature, Newcastle University, UK MARION O'CONNOR Senior Lecturer in English, University of Kent, UK JACQUELINE EALES Professor of Early Modern History, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK SUSAN FELCH Professor of English Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI, USA N. H. KEEBLE Professor of English Studies and Senior Deputy Principal, Stirling University, UK ERICA LONGFELLOW Senior Lecturer, Kingston University, UK LYNNE MAGNUSSON Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada DAVID NORBROOK Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK DIANE PURKISS Tutor and Fellow in English, Keble College, University of Oxford, UK SARAH C. E. ROSS Lecturer in English and Media Studies, Massey University, New Zealand NIGEL SMITH Professor of English, Princeton University, USA SUSAN WISEMAN Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK