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Political speaking justified : women prophets and the English Revolution
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- Creator
- Teresa Feroli
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- 270 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780874139082, 0874139082
- OCLC
- ocm60454016
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-259) and index.
- Introduction: political speaking justified -- In the name of the Father: divine right and women's rights -- Sodomy and female authority: the Castlehaven scandal and Lady Eleanor's The restitution of prophecy (1651) -- The semiotics of fasting in Anna Trapnel's The cry of a stone (1654) -- Margaret Fell's Womens speaking justified and Quaker ideas of female subjectivity -- Epilogue: Mary Astell's "History of women" -- Appendix: provisional checklist of women prophets' published writings, 1625-1667
Subjects
- Fell, Margaret, 1614-1702.
- Douglas, Eleanor, Lady, -1652.
- Trapnel, Anna.
- English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
- Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
- Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
- Women prophets -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
- Women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
- Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 -- Historiography.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.