The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 (Early Modern Literature in History)

This Collection Of Essays By Leading Scholars In The Field Reveals The Major Contribution Of Puritan Women To The Intellectual Culture Of The Early Modern Period, Showing That Women's Roles With Puritan And Broader Communities Encompassed Translating And Disseminating Key Texts And Producing An Impressive Body Of Original Writing-- Machine Generated Contents Note: -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes On Contributors -- List Of Abbreviations -- Foreword--n.h. Keeble -- Introduction--j. Harris & E. Scott-baumann -- The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock--s. Felch -- The Countess Of Pembroke And The Practice Of Piety--d. Clarke -- Imagining A National Church: Election And Education In The Works Of Anne Cooke Bacon--l. Magnusson -- Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries And Culture--e. Clarke -- Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess Of Bedford--m. Oconnor -- An Ancient Mother In Our Israel: Mary, Lady Vere--j. Eales -- Give Me Thy Hairt And I Desyre No More: The Song Of Songs, Petrarchism And Elizabeth Melvilles Puritan Poetics--s.c.e. Ross -- But I Thinke And Beleeve: Lady Brilliana Harleys Puritanism In Epistolary Community--j. Harris -- Take Unto Ye Words: Elizabeth Ishams Booke Of Rememberance And Puritan Cultural Forms--e. Longfellow -- Anne Bradstreets Poetry And Providence: Earth, Wind, And Fire--s. Wiseman -- Viscountess Ranelagh And The Authorisation Of Womens Knowledge In The Hartlib Circle--r. Connoll -- Anna Trapnels Literary Geography--d. Purkiss -- Lucy Hutchinson, The Bible And Order And Disorder--e. Scott-baumann -- Pregnant Dreams In Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example--n. Smith -- Afterword--d. Norbrook -- Bibliography -- Index. Edited By Johanna Harris And Elizabeth Scott-baumann. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 214-238) And Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Illustrations......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Foreword......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 16 List of Abbreviations......Page 20 1 Introduction......Page 22 2 The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock......Page 36 3 The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety......Page 49 4 Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon......Page 63 5 Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture......Page 78 6 Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford......Page 92 7 'An Ancient Mother in our Israel': Mary, Lady Vere......Page 105 8 'Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more': The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melville's Puritan Poetics......Page 117 9 'But I thinke and beleeve': Lady Brilliana Harley's Puritanism in Epistolary Community......Page 129 10 'Take unto ye words': Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' and Puritan Cultural Forms......Page 143 11 Anne Bradstreet's Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire......Page 156 12 Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Women's Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle......Page 171 13 Anna Trapnel's Literary Geography......Page 183 14 Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder......Page 197 15 Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example......Page 211 Afterword......Page 223 Bibliography......Page 235 Index......Page 260 Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on contributors List of abbreviations Foreword N.H.Keeble Introduction J.Harris & E.Scott-Baumann The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock S.Felch The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety D.Clarke Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon L.Magnusson Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture E.Clarke Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford M.OConnor An Ancient Mother in our Israel: Mary, Lady Vere J.Eales Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more: The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melvilles Puritan Poetics S.C.E.Ross But I thinke and beleeve: Lady Brilliana Harleys Puritanism in Epistolary Community J.Harris Take unto ye words: Elizabeth Ishams Booke of Rememberance and Puritan Cultural Forms E.Longfellow Anne Bradstreets Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire S.Wiseman Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Womens Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle R.Connoll Anna Trapnels Literary Geography D.Purkiss Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder E.Scott-Baumann Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example N.Smith Afterword D.Norbrook Bibliography Index. This is the first study of puritan women's place in early modern intellectual culture. Puritan women have suffered a double prejudice: that women were excluded from male culture, and that puritanism was hostile to many forms of culture. This collection argues that early modern women's puritanism formed and developed rather than prohibited their substantial and leading contributions to their culture. The essays introduce recently discovered writers such as Elizabeth Isham and Elizabeth Melville and new analyses of well-known writers such as Lady Mary Sidney Herbert and Anne Locke, and also highlight the local, national, and international dimensions of early modern puritan culture. With a foreword by N. H. Keeble and afterword by David Norbrook and fifteen essays by leading scholars of early modern literature and history, this collection reveals an intellectual culture characterized by networks of patronage, translation, manuscript circulation and correspondence. - Publisher.