The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680 - Hardcover

by J. Harris (Editor), E. Scott-Baumann (Editor)

This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.

Author Biography

DANIELLE CLARKE Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ELIZABETH CLARKE Reader in English, University of Warwick, UK RUTH CONNOLLY Research Associate in English Literature, Newcastle University, UK MARION O'CONNOR Senior Lecturer in English, University of Kent, UK JACQUELINE EALES Professor of Early Modern History, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK SUSAN FELCH Professor of English Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI, USA N. H. KEEBLE Professor of English Studies and Senior Deputy Principal, Stirling University, UK ERICA LONGFELLOW Senior Lecturer, Kingston University, UK LYNNE MAGNUSSON Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada DAVID NORBROOK Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK DIANE PURKISS Tutor and Fellow in English, Keble College, University of Oxford, UK SARAH C. E. ROSS Lecturer in English and Media Studies, Massey University, New Zealand NIGEL SMITH Professor of English, Princeton University, USA SUSAN WISEMAN Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK