Women writers and public debate in 17th-century Britain

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    • Gray, Catharine

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Women writers and public debate in 17th-century Britain

Catharine Gray

(Early modern cultural studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

1st ed

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Bibliography: p. [225]-247

Includes index

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Description

This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate.

Table of Contents

Crossing Borders: From Private Dialogue to Public Debate Feeding on the Seed of the Woman: Dorothy Leigh and the Figure of Maternal Dissent At 'Liberty to Preach in the Chambers': Sarah Wight, Henry Jessey, and the New-Modeled Community of Saints The Knowing Few: Katherine Philips and The Post-Courtly Coterie News from the New World: Anne Bradstreet and Pan-Protestant Poetics Gathering and Scattering in Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers

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