New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 1650-1800

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.

Auteur
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).

Texte du rabat

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.

Résumé
New Critical Studies on Early Quaker Women, 16501800 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 livesRevolutions, Disruptions and Networksby tying gendered experience to ruptures in religion across this radical, volatile period of history.