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This study examines women's prophetic writings in
seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse
of social transformation that integrates religious conscience,
political participation, and gender identity. The following pages
approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for
collective change as the individual prophet conceptualized it.
While the corpus of prophetic writing continues to grow as the
result of archival research, this monograph complements our
particular knowledge of women's prophecy in the seventeenth century
with a global assessment of what makes speech prophetic in the
first place, and what are the differences and similarities between
texts that fall into the prophetic mode. These disparities and
commonalities stand out in the radical language of prophecy as well
as in the way it creates an authorial centre. Examining how
authorship is represented in several configurations of prophetic
delivery, such as essays on prophecy, poetic prophecy, spiritual
autobiography, and election narratives, the different chapters
consider why prophecy peaked in the years of the civil wars and how
it evolved towards the eighteenth century. The analyses extrapolate
the peculiarities of each case study as being representative of a
form of textually-based activism that enabled women to gain a
deeper understanding of themselves as creators of independent
meaning that empowered them as individuals, citizens, and
believers.
This study examines women's prophetic writings in
seventeenth-century Britain as the literary outcome of a discourse
of social transformation that integrates religious conscience,
political participation, and gender identity. The following pages
approach prophecy as a culture, a language, and a catalyst for
collective change as the individual prophet conceptualized it.
While the corpus of prophetic writing continues to grow as the
result of archival research, this monograph complements our
particular knowledge of women's prophecy in the seventeenth century
with a global assessment of what makes speech prophetic in the
first place, and what are the differences and similarities between
texts that fall into the prophetic mode. These disparities and
commonalities stand out in the radical language of prophecy as well
as in the way it creates an authorial centre. Examining how
authorship is represented in several configurations of prophetic
delivery, such as essays on prophecy, poetic prophecy, spiritual
autobiography, and election narratives, the different chapters
consider why prophecy peaked in the years of the civil wars and how
it evolved towards the eighteenth century. The analyses extrapolate
the peculiarities of each case study as being representative of a
form of textually-based activism that enabled women to gain a
deeper understanding of themselves as creators of independent
meaning that empowered them as individuals, citizens, and
believers.
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