Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century by Katharine Gillespie

Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century by Katharine Gillespie

In Domesticity and Dissent Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, women such as Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration, the separation of Church from state, privacy, and individualism. Gillespie argues that their sermons, prophesies, and petitions illustrate the fact that these liberal theories did not originate only with such well-known male thinkers as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. Rather, they emerged also from a group of determined female religious dissenters who used the Bible to reassess traditional definitions of womanhood, public speech and religious and political authority. Gillespie takes the 'pamphlet literatures' of the seventeenth century as important subjects for analysis, and her study contributes to the important scholarship on the revolutionary writings that emerged during the volatile years of the mid-seventeenth-century Civil War in England.

Review of the hardback: 'Still, it is a scholarly and passionate intervention in a debate which runs high, especially in America …' The Times Literary Supplement

Katharine Gillespie is Assistant Professor of seventeenth-century transatlantic and early modern women's literature at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. She has published articles in Genders, Bunyan Studies, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Symbiosis.

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ISBN 13	9780521830638
ISBN 10	052183063X
Title	Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century
Author	Katharine Gillespie
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2004-02-02
Number of pages	286
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