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The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680
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The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680
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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 demonstratesthat women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.
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Yes, you can access The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 by J. Harris, E. Scott-Baumann, J. Harris,E. Scott-Baumann in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Modern Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock
- 3 The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety
- 4 Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon
- 5 Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture
- 6 Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford
- 7 'An Ancient Mother in our Israel': Mary, Lady Vere
- 8 'Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more': The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melville's Puritan Poetics
- 9 'But I thinke and beleeve': Lady Brilliana Harley's Puritanism in Epistolary Community
- 10 'Take unto ye words': Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' and Puritan Cultural Forms
- 11 Anne Bradstreet's Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire
- 12 Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Women's Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle
- 13 Anna Trapnel's Literary Geography
- 14 Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder
- 15 Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index