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Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660
- Title
- Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660 / by Marcus Andrew Nevitt.
- Author
- Nevitt, Marcus.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2006.
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Details
- Description
- 218 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, have recently been located among the most inclusive or democratic aspects of the social life of early modern England, this study provides a more gender-sensitive picture. Marcus Nevitt argues instead that throughout the revolutionary decades pamphlet culture was actually constructed around the public silence and exclusion of women.
- In support of his thesis, he discusses more familiar seventeenth-century authors such as John Milton, John Selden and Thomas Edwards in relation to the less canonical but equally forceful writings of Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Mary Pope, 'Parliament Joan' and a large number of Quaker women."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Uniform Title
- Women and gender in the early modern world.
- Subject
- 1500-1700
- Geschichte 1640-1660
- 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
- Pamphlets > Publishing > History > Great Britain > 17th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Women > Political activity > History > Great Britain > 17th century
- Political science > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Women > Great Britain > Intellectual life > 17th century
- Pamphleteers > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- Pamphlets > Authorship > History > 17th century
- English prose literature > Early modern
- English prose literature > Women authors
- Historiography
- Pamphleteers
- Pamphlets > Authorship
- Pamphlets > Publishing
- Political science
- Politics and literature
- Women and literature
- Women > Intellectual life
- Women > Political activity
- Politisches Handeln
- Flugschrift
- Frau
- Literatura anglesa > 1500-1700, Anglès modern primitiu > Història i crítica
- Dones escriptores > Gran Bretanya > Història i critica
- Política i literatura > Gran Bretanya > S. XVII
- Literatura de canya i cordill > Gran Bretanya > S. XVII
- Dones i literatura > Gran Bretanya > S. XVII
- Great Britain > History > Historiography. > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660
- Great Britain
- England
- Gran Bretanya > Història > 1603-1714, Casa dels Stuart
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-211) and index.
- Contents
- Justification cannot be self-justification : Katherine Chidley and the discourses of religious toleration -- Agency in crisis : women write the regicide -- A woman in the business of revolutionary news : Elizabeth Alkin, 'Parliament Joan' and the Commonwealth newsbook -- Clothing the naked woman : writing women's agency in revolutionary England -- Gender identities and women's agency in early modern tithe dispute.
- ISBN
- 0754641155
- 9780754641155
- LCCN
- 2005026512
- OCLC
- ocm61687676
- 61687676
- SCSB-14043267
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library