Hilary Hinds

George Fox and Early Quaker Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Close readings of Foxâ s Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends and their critics to examine the fundamental erosion of the division between the human and the divine in early Quaker culture, and its consequences for understanding the history of the spiritual subject. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780719081576
• ISBN-10: 0719081572
• Artikelnr.: 33153961

Autorenporträt

Hilary Hinds is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: seamless subjects 1 'As the Light appeared, all appeared':
the Quaker culture of convincement 2 'Let your lives preach': the embodied
rhetoric of the early Quakers 3 'And The Lord's Power Was Over All':
anxiety, confidence and masculinity in Fox's journal 4 A technology of
presence: genre and temporality in Fox's journal 5 'Moved of the Lord': the
contingent itinerancy of early Friends 6 The limits of the light: silence
and slavery in Quaker narratives of journeys to America and Barbados
Conclusion: singularity and doubleness Index