Description
Book SynopsisClose readings of Fox’s Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends and their critics to examine the fundamental erosion of the division between the human and the divine in early Quaker culture, and its consequences for understanding the history of the spiritual subject.
Trade Review'The range of fresh perspectives about the nature of early Quaker discourse and culture that Hinds offers will be of great value to scholars of the period.'
Stuart Masters, Quaker Studies, 16:2 (2012)
'A consistently perceptive book ... a well-constructed, tautly argued, genuinely interdisciplinary study.'
R. C. Richardson, Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, 41:3
'An insightful study of early Quaker culture ... Highly recommended.'
M. Cole, CHOICE, May 2012
'... raises important questions for future research ... This is an important book for its contents, but it is also to be highly commended for the depth of its research, how well it is written and its accessibility.'
Religious Studies Review, 38:3 (2012)
'a thoroughly enjoyable book, one that should be of use to scholars of Quakerism and of early modern religion and radicalism more generally.'
K. J. Kesselring, The Seventeenth Century, 28:1 (2013)
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: seamless subjects
1 ‘As the Light appeared, all appeared’: the Quaker culture of convincement
2 ‘Let your lives preach’: the embodied rhetoric of the early Quakers
3 ‘And The Lord’s Power Was Over All’: anxiety, confidence and masculinity in Fox’s journal
4 A technology of presence: genre and temporality in Fox’s journal
5 ‘Moved of the Lord’: the contingent itinerancy of early Friends
6 The limits of the light: silence and slavery in Quaker narratives of journeys to America and Barbados
Conclusion: singularity and doubleness
Index
