Domesticity and Dissent in the Seventeenth Century: English Women Writers and the Public Sphere

Katharine Gillespie examines writings by seventeenth-century English Puritan women who fought for religious freedom. Seeking the right to preach and prophesy, Katherine Chidley, Anna Trapnel, Elizabeth Poole, and Anne Wentworth envisioned the modern political principles of toleration and the separation of church from state, as well as the issues of privacy and individualism. Gillespies analysis of pamphlet literatures of the seventeenth century contributes to the scholarship on revolutionary writings that emerged during the volatile years of Englands mid-seventeenth-century Civil War.

Author: Katharine Gillespie

Language: English

Edition: 1

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 288

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2009-09-24