Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England [Hardcover]

This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship.This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, these women were active participants in wider theological debates.This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, these women were active participants in wider theological debates.Challenging critical assumptions about the role of religion in influencing women's experiences of authorship, the seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the entire religio-political and social spectrums. Yet, all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, these women were active participants in wider theological debates.Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on transcription and citation; Introduction; 1. 'Blockish Adams' on mystical marriage; 2. Ecce homo: the spectacle of Christ's passion in Salve deus rex jud?orum; 3. Serpents and doves: Lady Anne Southwell and the new Adam; 4. Public worship and private thanks in Eliza's babes; 5. Anna Trapnel 'sings of her Lover'; 6. The transfiguration of Colonel Hutchinson in Lucy Hutchinson's elegies; Conclusion; Bibliography; Indexes. Erica Longfellow's careful attention to the circumstances of production of these texts is in itself a considerable feat of scholarship...[a]livellÓH