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Catechisms and Women's Writing in Seventeenth-Century England
Paula McQuade
出版Cambridge University Press, 2017-07-03
主題History / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsReligion / Christianity / Catechisms
ISBN11071982599781107198258
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2ZokDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Catechisms and Women's Writing in Seventeenth-Century England argues that the reading and writing of catechisms were crucial sites of women's literary engagements in early modern England. By studying female catechists, we learn how early modern women used the power and authority granted to them as mothers and domestic catechists to teach religious doctrine, to demonstrate their linguistic skills, and to comment on matters of contemporary religious and political import-activities that many scholars have considered the sole prerogative of clergymen. I draw upon recent work that asserts the importance of manuscript circulation in early modern England and introduce the catechetical compositions of six (largely) unremarked seventeenth-century Protestant women writers of diverse social classes: Katherine Fitzwilliam (b. 1579), Ann Montagu (b. 1573), Katherine Thomas (b. 1637), Barbara Slingsby Talbot (b.1633), Dorothy Burch (fl.1646), and Mary Cary (b. 1621). These women were evangelical Protestants and Church of England loyalists. They wrote original catechisms in manuscript for use within the home, tailoring their compositions to the age and abilities of their children"--