Johanna Harris - The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 [2010][A]

Product Description
Publication Date: 15 Dec 2010 | Series: Early Modern Literature in History
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.

Review
'The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women provides fifteen fascinating vignettes of prominent female thinkers. The editors do not attempt an over-arching definition of a Puritan, but each individual chapter justifies its subject's claim to that title, building up a composite picture of a formidable godly femininity.'- David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement

About the Authors
JOHANNA HARRIS is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK. She has published articles in The Seventeenth Century, Literature Compass, Literary Encyclopaedia, Blackwell Encyclopaedia of English Renaissance Literature, and New Ways of Looking at Old Texts. She is editing the manuscript writings of Lady Brilliana Harley and is working on a monograph on puritan epistolary communities.

ELIZABETH SCOTT-BAUMANN is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at Wadham College, University of Oxford and Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK. She has published articles in Literature Compass, Women's Writing, APPOSITIONS: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature and Culture, and the Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. She is working on a monograph entitled Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry and Culture, 1640–1680.