Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th Century Britain.

By: Gray, CatharineMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700 SerPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (267 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780230605565Subject(s): English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century | Politics in literature | Public opinion in literature | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th Century BritainDDC classification: 820.9/9287 LOC classification: PN715-PN749PN849.G74Online resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Zealous Mother: Dorothy Leigh and the Godly Family -- Chapter 2 At "Liberty to Preach in the Chambers": Sarah Wight, Henry Jessey, and the New-Modeled Community of Saints -- Chapter 3 The Knowing Few: Katherine Philips and the Courtly Coterie -- Chapter 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.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Women Writers and Public Debate in 17th-Century Britain -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Zealous Mother: Dorothy Leigh and the Godly Family -- Chapter 2 At "Liberty to Preach in the Chambers": Sarah Wight, Henry Jessey, and the New-Modeled Community of Saints -- Chapter 3 The Knowing Few: Katherine Philips and the Courtly Coterie -- Chapter 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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