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Domesticity and dissent in the seventeenth-century English women writers and the public sphere /

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Main Author: Gillespie, Katharine
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
English literature > Puritan authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Dissenters, Religious > England > History > 17th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Puritan women > England > Intellectual life.
Dissenters, Religious, in literature.
Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Literature and the war.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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