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Response to three essays on The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558–1680 presented at Renaissance Society of America Convention, April 2010
Literature Compass Conference Cluster
Author(s) -
Lake Peter
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00811.x
Subject(s) - the renaissance , convention , history , literature , sociology , psychology , classics , aesthetics , art history , social science , art
This article considers how hard it has proven to recover the ways in which puritan religion both enabled and contained the efforts of various early modern women to combine the fulfillment of their calling as Christians with the demands placed upon them by contemporary gender roles. The article then goes on to discuss how the three essays to which it responds successfully explore the subtly contradictory nature of the impact of puritanism on the literary, intellectual and spiritual activities of godly women in early modern England.