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Women writers and public debate in 17th-century Britain /

This book reveals that seventeenth-century women?s very marginality to traditional institutions of church and state made them catalysts for imagining an expanded public culture beyond these institutions. Women authors such as the conduct writer Dorothy Leigh, the prophet Sarah Wight, and the poet Ka...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gray, Catharine, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Early modern cultural studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Crossing Borders: From Private Dialogue to Public Debate
  • Feeding on the Seed of the Woman: Dorothy Leigh and the Figure of Maternal Dissent
  • At 'Liberty to Preach in the Chambers': Sarah Wight, Henry Jessey, and the New-Modeled Community of Saints
  • The Knowing Few: Katherine Philips and The Post-Courtly Coterie
  • News from the New World: Anne Bradstreet and Pan-Protestant Poetics
  • Gathering and Scattering in Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers.