The Emergence of Quaker Writing

Dissenting Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
Herausgeber: Corns, T.; Loewenstein, D.

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of new essays looks at the diversity of seventeenth-century Quaker writing, examining its rhetoric, its polemical strategies, its purposeful use of the print medium, and the heroism and vehemence of its world vision.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780714642468
• ISBN-10: 0714642460
• Artikelnr.: 21720932

Autorenporträt

T. Corns, D. Loewenstein

Inhaltsangabe

Patterns of Quaker authorship, 1652-56, Kate Peters; the war of the lamb -
George Fox and the apocalyptic discourse of revolutionary Quakerism, David
Loewenstein; Margaret Fell Fox and feminist literary history - a mother in
Israel calls to the Jews, Judith Kegan Gardiner; hidden things brought to
light - enthusiasm and Quaker discourse, Nigel Smith; from seeker to finder
- the singular experience of Mary Penington, Norman T. Burns; handmaids of
the Lord and mothers in Israel - early vindications of Quaker women's
prophecy, Elaine Hobby; no man's copy - the critical problem of Fox's
Journal; the politic and the polite in Quaker prose - the case of William
Penn, N.H. Keeble; Joseph Besse and the Quaker culture of suffering, John
R. Knott; early Quakerism - a historian's afterword, Ann Hughes.