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Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century : English women writers and the public sphere /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.