Domesticity and dissent

Katharine Gillespie052183063X, 9780521830638

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. Gillespie’s analysis of “pamphlet literatures” of the seventeenth century contributes to the scholarship on revolutionary writings that emerged during the volatile years of England’s mid-seventeenth-century Civil War.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Dedication……Page 7
Contents……Page 11
Acknowledgments……Page 12
the adventures of the possessive self……Page 15
the lady and the baptists……Page 17
sabrina speaks……Page 22
notes……Page 29
1 “Born of the mother’s seed”: liberalism, feminism, and religious separatism……Page 39
notes……Page 68
2 A hammer in her hand: Katherine Chidley and Anna Trapnel separate church from state……Page 76
a woman’s place is in the home-based church……Page 80
the separation of home from state: the writings of katherine chidley……Page 89
a woman’s home is her castle: the female leveller petitions……Page 99
a suum of one’s own: the formation of a public sphere in anna trapnel’s report and plea……Page 106
notes……Page 120
3 Cure for a diseased head: divorce and contract in the prophecies of Elizabeth Poole……Page 129
the house of spirit……Page 145
curing the body……Page 153
divorcing the king……Page 160
the lady’s doctrine of virginity……Page 169
notes……Page 175
4 The unquenchable smoking flax: Sarah Wight, Anne Wentworth, and the “rise” of the sovereign individual……Page 180
interpellated women in history……Page 185
a tradition of popular sovereignty……Page 188
sarah wight: new sovereign woman……Page 195
anne wentworth: possessive individual……Page 216
notes……Page 224
5 Improving God’s estate: pastoral servitude and the free market in the writings of Mary Cary……Page 229
the subordinate’s plot……Page 230
improving god’s estate……Page 243
notes……Page 273
Conclusion……Page 276
notes……Page 279
Index……Page 281