The Emergence of Quaker Writing: Dissenting Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

by Thomas N. Corns

Among the radical sects which flourished during the tumultuous years of the English Revolution, the early Quakers were particularly aware of the power of the written word to promote their prophetic visions?and unorthodox beliefs.

This collection of new essays by literary scholars and historians looks at the diversity of seventeenth-century Quaker writing, examining its rhetoric, its polemical strategies, its purposeful use of the print medium,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714642460
• ISBN13: 9780714642468
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.5"