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The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth-Century Woman
This anthology brings together extracts from a wide variety of seventeenth-century sources to illustrate the ways in which the cultural notion of `women' was then constructed. historical circumstances of women's lives in the seventeenth century and the cultural notions of `woman' which prevailed then. What did women and men think women should be? Over 200 extracts from books, pamphlets, diaries and letters are arranged under three main headings: female nature, character and behaviour; female roles and affairs; and `feminisms.' Each chapter is introduced by N.H. Keeble who contextualises the extracts and draws out the main issues revised.
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The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution
This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of the succeeding period of constitutional experiment were enacted and refigured in writing which both shaped and was shaped by the tumultuous times. The various strategies of this battle of the books are explored through essays on the course of events, intellectual trends and the publishing industry; in discussions of canonical figures such as Milton, Marvell, Bunyan and Clarendon; and in accounts of women's writing and of fictional and non-fictional prose. A full chronology, detailed guides to further reading and a glossary are included.
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Wilderness Exercises: Adversity, Temptation, and Trial in Paradise Regained
[...]Paradise Lost shadows its successor as the movement between hell and heaven of its first three books is reproduced in miniature in the opening two hundred lines of Paradise Regained. The demonic council summoned by Satan “in mid air,” “Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, / A gloomy consistory,” at which the infernal powers commit to “their great dictator” Satan the “main enterprise” of subverting the “attested Son of God” (1.112, 113, 122, 124), is succeeded by the rejoicing of the “full frequence bright / Of angels” in heaven upon hearing that the Father is to fulfill his “purposed counsel pre-ordained” by frustrating the “stratagems of hell” through “This perfect man, by merit called my Son” (1.127, 128–29, 166, 180). Heaven and hell are once again preoccupied with distant, and apparently inconsequential, human beings, the “puny habitants” of earth, this time a man “obscure, / Unmarked, unknown” (1.24–25), the Father's “new favourite.” [...]for the alert reader this desert had already begun to slip its geographical and temporal moorings when the disguised Satan warned the Son that none wandered in it solitary “and dropped not here / His carcase:” that “your carcase … shall fall in the wilderness” was the punishment pronounced by Jehovah on those rebellious Israelites who, following the Exodus, desired to return to Egypt and “murmured against Moses and against Aaron” in the wilderness of Paran (Num. 12:16; 14:2, 4, 29). In both its history of Israel's covenant relationship with Jehovah and in its records of the lives of patriarchs and prophets, religious dedication and desert journeys are so interconnected in the Old Testament that wilderness landscapes, and journeys through them, become the context in which spiritual destinies are fulfilled.
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Biographical Dictionary of Tutors at the Dissenters' Private Academies, 1660-1729
London: Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, 2013, online at http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/drwilliams/pubs/dictionarv.html Since its establishment in 2004 as a collaboration between the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Williams's Library, London, the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies has transformed the study of early modern Puritan and Nonconformist history and culture. Drawing on the Library's unrivalled manuscript collections and holdings of early printed books, and with the support of its Trustees, under the leadership of David Wykes and Isabel Rivers, and then of James Vigus, the Centre has initiated, supported and promoted research and editorial projects and has established highly-regarded programmes of seminars, workshops and conferences. In view of this record, it is a matter of the greatest regret to all early modern scholars, and to Bunyan Society members in particular, that the closure of the Centre was announced last autumn; the partnership between the Library and Queen Mary was formally dissolved at the end of 2015.
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Bunyan's King
Faith lodgeth the Soul with Christ [...] [...]it were no shame to him, to wear a Chain for his Name and Sake' (MW, 12: 342). [...]prisoner for defying the Restoration regime though he might be, Bunyan insists that he is 'one of the old-fashioned Professors, that covet to fear God, and honour the King' (MW, 13: 489). [...]as Christopher Hill long ago noted,'2 in Bunyan's writings fashionable carriage, wealth and social privilege are almost invariably signs of moral turpitude: [...]as this implies, Heaven can make use of kings, and will do so signally in the last days: from the vision of the kings of the earth bringing their glory and honour to the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21:24 ?we see, that though in the first day of the Gospel, the poor, the halt, the lame and the blind are chief in the embracing of the tenders of Grace, yet in the latter day thereof, God will take hold of Kings', those kings who, hitherto besotted with the Mother of Harlots, the ?
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