Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660
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Anna Trapnel
Author_Marcus Nevitt
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Christopher Feake
Cromwell's Chaplain
David Brown
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Early Modern British Political Tradition
early modern gender studies
Early Modern Public Sphere
Ehud's Dagger
Elinor Channel
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Elizabeth Alkin
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Henry Walker
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Katherine Chidley
Marchamont Nedham
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Mock Petition
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Naked Woman
Pamphlet Culture
Perfect Diurnall
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print culture history
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Quaker Women
Quaker women's writings
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Revolutionary England
seventeenth-century publishing
Sir Robert Cotton
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Tithe Payment
Tithes Controversy
women's agency in English Revolution
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754641155
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, have recently been located among the most inclusive or democratic aspects of the social life of early modern England, this study provides a more gender-sensitive picture. Marcus Nevitt argues instead that throughout the revolutionary decades pamphlet culture was actually constructed around the public silence and exclusion of women. In support of his thesis, he discusses more familiar seventeenth-century authors such as John Milton, John Selden and Thomas Edwards in relation to the less canonical but equally forceful writings of Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Mary Pope, 'Parliament Joan' and a large number of Quaker women. This is the first sustained study of the relationship between female agency and cheap print throughout the revolutionary decades 1640 to 1660. It adds to the study of gender in the field of the English Revolution by engaging with recent work in the history of the book, stressing the materiality of texts and the means and physical processes by which women's writing emerged through the printing press and networks of publication and dissemination. It will stimulate welcome debate about the nature and limits of discursive freedom in the early modern period, and for women in particular.
Marcus Nevitt is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.
