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Author:

Feroli, Teresa

Title:

Political speaking justified : women prophets and the English Revolution / Teresa Feroli.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

270 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Great Britain--Historiography.--Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660--Historiography.
English prose literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
English prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Women--History--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Political science--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Women prophets--Great Britain--History--17th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century
Women--Great Britain--Intellectual life--17th century.
Fell, Margaret,--1614-1702.
Douglas, Eleanor,--Lady,---1652.
Trapnel, Anna.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-259) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780874139082
0874139082 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60454016

LCCN:

2005014400

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)