The mothers legacy to her vnborn childe / / Elizabeth Joscelin ; edited with introduction and notes by Jean LeDrew Metcalfe

• Autore: Jocelin Elizabeth <1596-1622, >
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000; ©2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 p.)
• Disciplina: 248.8/2
• Soggetto topico: Children - Religious life; Children - Conduct of life
• Soggetto genere / forma: Livres numeriques.; Early works.; e-books.; Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): MetcalfeJean LeDrew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Elizabeth Joscelin's Life -- 2 The Mothers Legacy to her Vnborn Childe -- 3 The Reception of The Mothers Legacy -- 4 The Manuscripts -- 5 Publication History -- Editorial Procedures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Thomas Goad's 'Approbation' -- 'To my truly louinge and most Dearly loued husband Taurell locelin' -- The Mothers Legacy to her Vnborn Childe -- Textual Variants -- Appendix: Nineteenth-Century Introductions to The Mothers Legacy -- 1 Robert Lee (1852) -- 2 Sarah Josepha Hale (1871) -- 3 Randall T. Davidson (1894). ; Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
• Sommario/riassunto: The mother's advice book represents a distinctly female literary genre appearing in seventeenth-century England. According to the conventions of this form, a mother leaves written instructions, of a predominantly spiritual nature, as a legacy to her children. The Mothers Legacy, written by Elizabeth Joscelin, is particularly significant for its documentation of ideas about women's education, authorship, and spirituality. With her writing, the author inscribes a distinctly female Protestant perspective. Moreover, as a highly self-conscious text, sophisticated in its use of rhetoric and passionately eloquent, The Mothers Legacy is an important example of Renaissance devotional writing. This popular book was reprinted seven times in the eleven years following its first appearance in 1624 and its appeal endured through to the end of the nineteenth century. The text is presented as a parallel edition of the original holograph and facing printed version. This comparative format allows for a discussion of the transmission and alteration of the original manuscript and provides a unique insight into the changes made by a male editor to a text written by a woman. The edition also includes an appendix of nineteenth-century introductions to the work, and an extensive bibliography.
• Titolo autorizzato: The mothers legacy to her vnborn childe
• ISBN: 1-282-04211-4; 9786612042119; 1-4426-8174-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780410203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II