Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain.
Title:
Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain.
Author:
Gray, Catharine.
ISBN:
9780230605565
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Series:
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Crossing Borders: From Private Dialogue to Public Debate -- 1 The Zealous Mother: Dorothy Leigh and the Godly Family -- 2 At "Liberty to Preach in the Chambers": Sarah Wight, Henry Jessey, and the New-Modeled Community of Saints -- 3 The Knowing Few: Katherine Philips and the Courtly Coterie -- 4 New England Becoming Old: Anne Bradstreet and the Coterie of Ghosts -- Scattering and Gathering in Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers: Conclusions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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