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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453583903321

Autore

Harvey Tamara <1966-, >

Titolo

Figuring modesty in feminist discourse across the Americas, 1633-1700 / / Tamara Harvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-93653-0

1-315-25526-X

1-281-76590-2

9786611765903

0-7546-8117-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Collana

Women and gender in the early modern world

Disciplina

810.9/928709032

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - 17th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

America Literatures History and criticism

America Literatures Women authors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Modesty's Charge: Feminist Functionalism and Seventeenth-Century Feminist Theory; 1 "Now Sisters ... impart your usefulnesse, and force": Anne Bradstreet's Feminist Functionalism; 2 "Cuerpo Luminoso": Body and Soul in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Primero Sueño; 3 "I doe not thinke the Body that dyes shall rise agayne": Anne Hutchinson's Mortalism as Feminist Functionalism; 4 Femmes fortes: Mysticism and the Female Apostolate of Marie de l'Incarnation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Inventive in its approach, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey offers a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by women, and explores how these women engaged in ongoing religious, political, scientific and social debates of the time.