Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660 write by Marcus Nevitt. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, have recently been located among the most inclusive or democratic aspects of the social life of early modern England, this study provides a more gender-sensitive picture. Marcus Nevitt argues instead that throughout the revolutionary decades pamphlet culture was actually constructed around the public silence and exclusion of women. In support of his thesis, he discusses more familiar seventeenth-century authors such as John Milton, John Selden and Thomas Edwards in relation to the less canonical but equally forceful writings of Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Mary Pope, 'Parliament Joan' and a large number of Quaker women. This is the first sustained study of the relationship between female agency and cheap print throughout the revolutionary decades 1640 to 1660. It adds to the study of gender in the field of the English Revolution by engaging with recent work in the history of the book, stressing the materiality of texts and the means and physical processes by which women's writing emerged through the printing press and networks of publication and dissemination. It will stimulate welcome debate about the nature and limits of discursive freedom in the early modern period, and for women in particular.
Self-effacing Agents
Self-effacing Agents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Self-effacing Agents write by Marcus Nevitt. This book was released on 2001. Self-effacing Agents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Unbridled Spirits
Unbridled Spirits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unbridled Spirits write by Stevie Davies. This book was released on 1998. Unbridled Spirits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unbridled Spirits is a vibrant and authoritative study of the women of the 17th century, women who found the means to speak out and demand change at a time when a woman could be publicly humiliated, bridled and tortured for scolding her husband.
Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680
Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 write by Rachel Adcock. This book was released on 2016-03-09. Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women. Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 fills that gap, exploring how female Baptists played a crucial role in the group’s formation and growth during the 1640s and 50s, by their active participation in religious and political debate, and their desire to evangelise their followers. The study significantly challenges the idea that women, as members of these congregations, were unable to write with any kind of textual authority because they were often prevented from speaking aloud in church meetings. On the contrary, Adcock shows that Baptist women found their way into print to debate points of church organisation and doctrine, to defend themselves and their congregations, to evangelise others by example and by teaching, and to prophesy, and discusses the rhetorical tactics they utilised in order to demonstrate the value of women’s contributions. In the course of the study, Adcock considers and analyses the writings of little-studied Baptist women, Deborah Huish, Katherine Sutton, and Jane Turner, as well as separatist writers Sara Jones, Susanna Parr, and Anne Venn. She also makes due connection to the more familiar work of Agnes Beaumont, Anna Trapnel, and Anne Wentworth, enabling a reassessment of the significance of those writings by placing them in this wider context. Writings by these female Baptists attracted serious attention, and, as Adcock discusses, some even found a trans-national audience.
Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts
Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts write by Mary Ellen Lamb. This book was released on 2017-11-28. Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Proposing a fresh approach to scholarship on the topic, this volume explores the cultural meanings, especially the gendered meanings, of material associated with oral traditions. The collection is divided into three sections. Part One investigates the evocations of the 'old nurse' as storyteller so prominent in early modern fictions. The essays in Part Two investigate women's fashioning of oral traditions to serve their own purposes. The third section disturbs the exclusive associations between the feminine and oral traditions to discover implications for masculinity, as well. Contributors explore the plays of Shakespeare and writings of Spenser, Sidney, Wroth and the Cavendishes, as well as works by less well known or even unknown authors. Framed by an introduction by Mary Ellen Lamb and an afterword by Pamela Allen Brown, these essays make several important interventions in scholarship in the field. They demonstrate the continuing cultural importance of an oral tradition of tales and ballads, even if sometimes circulated in manuscript and printed forms. Rather than in its mode of transmission, contributors posit that the continuing significance of this oral tradition lies instead in the mode of consumption (the immediacy of the interaction of the participants). Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts confirms the power of oral traditions to shape and also to unsettle concepts of the masculine as well as of the feminine. This collection usefully complicates any easy assumptions about associations of oral traditions with gender.
