Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 245 g
Dissenting Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
Buch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 245 g
ISBN: 978-0-7146-4246-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
This collection of new essays by literary scholars and historians looks at the diversity of seventeenth-century Quaker writing, examining its rhetoric, its polemical strategies, its purposeful use of the print medium, and the heroism and vehemence of its world vision.
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Patterns of Quaker authorship, 1652-56, Kate Peters; the war of the lamb - George Fox and the apocalyptic discourse of revolutionary Quakerism, David Loewenstein; Margaret Fell Fox and feminist literary history - a mother in Israel calls to the Jews, Judith Kegan Gardiner; hidden things brought to light - enthusiasm and Quaker discourse, Nigel Smith; from seeker to finder - the singular experience of Mary Penington, Norman T. Burns; handmaids of the Lord and mothers in Israel - early vindications of Quaker women's prophecy, Elaine Hobby; no man's copy - the critical problem of Fox's Journal; the politic and the polite in Quaker prose - the case of William Penn, N.H. Keeble; Joseph Besse and the Quaker culture of suffering, John R. Knott; early Quakerism - a historian's afterword, Ann Hughes.