New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800

This collection offers a reassessment of early Quaker women. With a central focus on gender, the contributors highlight new discoveries and interpretations about these transatlantic women Friends' pivotal revolutions, disruptions, and networks.

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).

Summary

This collection offers a reassessment of early Quaker women. With a central focus on gender, the contributors highlight new discoveries and interpretations about these transatlantic women Friends' pivotal revolutions, disruptions, and networks.

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michele Lise (EDT)/ Gill Tarter, Michele Lise (Professor of English Tarter
• Assisted by: Catie Gill (Editor), Gill Catie (Editor), Michele Lise Tarter (Editor), Tarter Michele Lise (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780198814221
• ISBN: 978-0-19-881422-1
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Later 17th century c 1650 to c 1699, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)