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RELIGIOUS RADICALISM IN STROOD RELIGIOUS RADICALISM IN STROOD
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19 A Place-Based Approach to Early Modern Women’s Writing
Get accessPaula McQuade is Professor of English at DePaul University in Chicago and the author of multiple articles on early modern women’s writing, including, most recently, ‘How Christiana Learned Her Catechism: Catechisms, Family Religion, and Lay Literacy in Seventeenth-Century England’ (2018). Her monograph, Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) is a study of early modern women’s literary use of catechising. Drawing upon the methodology of local history, McQuade examines original works composed by women—both in manuscript and print, as well as women’s copying and redacting of catechisms—and the construction of these materials from other sources. By studying female catechists, McQuade shows how early modern women used the power and authority granted to them as mothers to teach religious doctrine, to demonstrate their linguistic skills, to engage sympathetically with Catholic devotionals texts, and to comment on matters of contemporary religious and political import—activities that many scholars have considered the sole prerogative of clergymen. Paula McQuade received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1998. The recipient of a 1996 Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship, McQuade is the author of multiple articles on early modern women and gender. Her article on the female catechist Dorothy Burch was selected as the best article published in 2010 by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Writers. She is also the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from DePaul University.
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Published:19 December 2022
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Abstract
This chapter argues for the usefulness of local history to the study of early modern women writers. It suggests that local history offers a valuable way of thinking about the past, one which acknowledges the importance of the lives of otherwise unremarkable women and men. It explores the usefulness of local history for the study of early modern women’s writing, especially for the writings of women like Dorothy Burch, who may have possessed considerable power and authority within local communities but played no role in national, let alone international, events. By adopting a place-based approach, scholars of early modern women’s writing can emulate the heterodoxy and enthusiasm of female local historians. We can come to understand our work as participating within a tradition of women researchers who have also insisted upon the importance of the local, peripheral, and everyday.
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