Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century : English women writers and the public sphere / Katharine Gillespie
- Author
- Gillespie, Katharine
- Additional Titles
- Domesticity and dissent in the 17th-century
- Published
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages)
Access Online
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Introduction: Sabrina versus the state -- 1. "Born of the mother's seed": liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism -- 2. A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state -- 3. Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole -- 4. The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the "rise" of the sovereign individual -- 5. Improving God's estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary.
- Summary
- In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration, the separation of Church from state, privacy, and individualism. Gillespie argues that their sermons, prophesies, and petitions illustrate the fact that these liberal theories did not originate only with such well-known male thinkers as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Rather.
- Subject(s)
- 1500-1700
- English literature—Early modern, 1500-1700—History and criticism
- Literature and history—Great Britain—History—17th century
- English literature—Puritan authors—History and criticism
- English literature—Women authors—History and criticism
- Dissenters, Religious—England—History—17th century
- Women and literature—England—History—17th century
- Puritan women—England—Intellectual life
- Dissenters, Religious, in literature
- Littérature et histoire—Grande-Bretagne—Histoire—17e siècle
- Littérature anglaise—Auteurs puritains—Histoire et critique
- Écrits de femmes anglais—Histoire et critique
- Femmes et littérature—Angleterre—Histoire—17e siècle
- Puritaines—Angleterre—Vie intellectuelle
- Dissidents (Religion) dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM—European—English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Dissenters, Religious
- English literature—Early modern
- English literature—Puritan authors
- English literature—Women authors
- Literature and history
- War and literature
- Women and literature
- Great Britain—History—Civil War, 1642-1649—Literature and the war
- England
- Great Britain
- English Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780511187704
051118770X
9780521830638
052183063X
0511185863 (electronic bk.)
9780511185861 (electronic bk.)
0511185030 (electronic bk.)
9780511185038 (electronic bk.)
9780511483585 (ebook)
0511483589 (ebook)
9780511186776
0511186770
9780521120227 (paperback)
0521120225
1107148227
9781107148222
1280457953
9781280457951
0511313748
9780511313745 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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