Women writing the English republic, 1625-1681

La 4e de couverture indique : "Scholars have fiercely debated the causes of the English Civil Wars and the rise of anti-monarchical and republican thought a century before the American Revolution. This ambitious and highly original book is the first to argue that women played a significant role...

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Auteur principal : Gillespie Katharine (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Women writing the English republic, 1625-1681 / Katharine Gillespie
Publié : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi-354 p.)
Sujets :
  • Eleanor Davies, fifth monarchism, and the early liberal critique of tyranny
  • Brilliana Harley, neo-stoicism, and republican motherhood in the Civil Wars
  • Isabella Twysden and Hobbesian skepticism in the Commonwealth
  • Anne Bradstreet's humoralism in the New England
  • Anne Venn and seekerism in the late English republic
  • Lucy Hutchinson, hermeticism, and republicanism in the Restoration