New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800

by Michele Lise Tarter (Editor), Catie Gill (Editor)

Overview

New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650—1800 takes a fresh look at archival and printed sources from England and America, elucidating why women were instrumental to the Quaker movement from its inception to its establishment as a transatlantic religious body. This authoritative volume, the first collection to focus entirely on the contributions of women, is a landmark study of their distinctive religious and gendered identities. The chapters connect three richly woven threads of Quaker women's lives—Revolutions, Disruptions and Networks—by tying gendered experience to ruptures in religion across this radical, volatile period of history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192545329
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	04/19/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Michele Lise Tarter is a Professor of English at The College of New Jersey. She has published and presented extensively on early Quaker women's writing, Quaker pedagogy, and on Quaker texts and the expansion of the American literary canon. Her publications include Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early America (co-edited with Richard Bell; University of Georgia Press, 2012). Catie Gill is a Lecturer in Early Modern Writing at Loughborough University with research interests in gender and religion. Her publications include Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community (Ashgate, 2005) and the edited collection Theatre and Culture (Ashgate, 2010).

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I: Revolutions
• 1: Hilary Hinds: Sarah Jones and the Appearance of the Quaker Light
• 2: Catie Gill: 'Harden not they Heart': 'Antinomian' Appeals to Rulers in Restoration England"
• 3: Stephen W. Angell: Early Quaker Women and the Testimony of the Family, 1652-1767
• 4: Michele Lise Tarter: Written from the Body of Sisterhood: Transatlantic Quaker Women's Prophesying and the Creation of a New Word
• Part II: Disruptions
• 5: Erin Bell: 'Stock Characters with Stiff-Brimmed Bonnets': Depictions of Quaker Women by Outsiders, c. 1650-1800
• 6: Naomi Pullin: She Suffered for my Sake': Female Martyrs and Lay Activists in Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650-1710
• 7: Sarah Crabtree: In the Light and on the Road: Patience Brayton and the Quaker Itinerant Ministry
• 8: Desirée Henderson: 'The Impudent Fellow Came in Swareing': Constructing and Defending Quaker Community in Elizabeth Drinker's Diary
• Part III: Networks
• 9: Rebecca M. Rosen: Copying Hannah Griffitts: Poetic Circulation and the Quaker Community of Scribes
• 10: Kristianna Polder: Margaret Fell, Mother of the New Jerusalem
• 11: Elizabeth Bouldin: 'In the Days of Thy Youth': Eighteenth-Century Quaker Women and the Socialization of Children
• 12: Jean R. Soderlund: Quaker Women in Lenape Country: Defining Community on the West New Jersey Frontier
• Afterword

Editorial Reviews

"New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650—1800 is the first essay collection to consider women's crucial and often overlooked roles in Quakerism from the first generation through the eighteenth century and will surely stand as a definitive collection for years to come ... providing us in one volume a twenty-first-century cross-disciplinary conversation among historians and literary scholars of Quakers." — Lisa M. Logan, Early American Literature

"These twelve essays consider a breathtaking range of documentary evidence, including the eighteenth-century manuscript poems of Hannah Griffitts, which her friends sewed into their commonplace books, and late seventeenth-century trial records from colonial New Jersey. These sources attest to the contributors' commitment to reconstructing the world and worldview of early Quaker women." — Teresa Feroli, New York University, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (EMWJ)

"New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of Quaker studies. It is a volume written for a scholarly audience, but maintains a refreshing readability throughout. Its diverse yet cohesive content will undoubtedly inspire future research on early Quaker women, as well as thought-provoking interdisciplinary collaborations for years to come." — Erica Canella, Quaker Studies

"Each of these essays demonstrates just how much of the contribution of women to early Quaker history still remains to be uncovered, and how varied and remarkable were the opportunities for independent, resolute witness that Quaker women discovered, or created. It is a rich and original collection of high quality, based upon extensive primary sources, that is sure to prompt further research." — N. H. Keeble, The Seventeenth Century

"While edited collections often inaugurate the emergence of a nascent topic or methodology, New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women seems to indicate the field's maturity. On the merits of its extensive twenty-five page bibliography alone, this book offers an excellent point of entry into research on early Quaker women both for those new to the area and experts wishing to update their knowledge. Furthermore, some of its basic assumptions indicate its congruence with maturation in the broader field of Quaker studies, even as the book extends these developments." — Jay Miller, Quaker Religious Thought

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