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Author:   Johanna Harris (Associate Professor, Western Civilisation Program, Associate Professor, Western Civilisation Program, Australian Catholic University) ,  Alison Searle (Associate Professor of Textual Studies, School of English, Associate Professor of Textual Studies, School of English, University of Leeds)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.596kg
ISBN:  

9780198838876

ISBN 10:   0198838875
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   09 July 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Contributors Isabel Rivers: Introduction: The Idea of Puritan Literature 1: Sharon Achinstein: Anne Bradstreet: Poet and Theorist of Empire 2: Alison Searle: Performing Pastoral Care Through Letters 3: Gordon Campbell: Milton and the Performing Arts 4: Anne Dunan-Page: The Cambridge and London Experiences of Joseph Hussey: Conversion Narratives in the Eighteenth Century 5: David Loewenstein: Spiritual Inwardness, Religious Antiformalism, and Puritan Polemic in Paradise Lost 6: Johanna Harris: 'Holy, safe, and sweet, and durable': Richard Baxter's Writings and Puritan Friendship 7: Dzelzainis: De haeretico comburendo: Marvell, Hobbes, and Heresy 8: Elaine Hobby: 'What need has she to think of Heaven upon her Wedding-day?': Aphra Behn, Hypocrisy, and the Puritan Tradition 9: Laura L. Knoppers: 'For the Benefit of the Afflicted': Unsettling Comfort in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative 10: W. R. Owens: 'There you shall enjoy your friends again': Bunyan's Depiction of Heaven 11: Tom Charlton: Richard Baxter's 'Life': Editing the Puritan Experience in the Seventeenth Century 12: Nigel Smith: Richard Baxter and International Protestantism 13: Tessa Whitehouse: Women's Writing and the Puritan Tradition of Memorial Index

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This is a welcome addition to the growing body of work that recognises the creative energies of our Puritan forebears in the early modern period. I recommend it to all who share my curiosity about many of the topics under discussion. Its price is not expensive for a work of scholarship but suggests that you may need to consult it first in the library. However that, in my view, may well lead to a considered and rewarding purchase. * Phyllis Thomas, Congregational History Society Magazine *

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Johanna Harris is Associate Professor of Literature in the Western Civilisation Program at the Australian Catholic University. Her research and publications focus on the literature, religion, and politics of the early modern period. With Alison Searle, she is a general editor of The Complete Correspondence of Richard Baxter and a volume editor for The Oxford Traherne (both forthcoming with Oxford University Press). Alison Searle is Associate Professor of Textual Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research and publications focus on epistolary culture, scholarly editing, and the relationship between literature and theology. Her most recent book is Pastoral Care through Letters in the British Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She is also a general editor (with Johanna Harris) of The Complete Correspondence of Richard Baxter (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).

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