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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Lucy Hutchinson."”.
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Meditative poetry, covenant theology, and Lucy Hutchinson's order and disorder.
I argue that Order and Disorder (1679), Lucy Hutchinson's biblical epic on Genesis, is a meditative poem, while claiming that Hutchinson's study of Independent theologian John Owen's covenant theology informed her narration of the events in Genesis. I offer a reading of the poem as a whole to show …
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To teach, move, meditate, and oppose : Lucy Hutchinson's rhetoric in Order and Disorder.
Lucy Hutchinson's biblical poetic paraphrase, Order and Disorder, employs rhetorical strategies that enable her to teach and move her audience, meditate for her own spiritual benefit, and oppose the atomistic doctrine of Lucretius. In this dissertation, I begin to examine the poem using a …
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Rhetoric, education, and the affections in seventeenth-century biblical epic.
… Davideis, John Milton's Paradise Regained, and Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder—use rhetorical praise and blame for the moral and spiritual formation of their readers. In my study of these authors' biblical epics, I focus on their use of epideictic rhetoric: speech which directs praise and …
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The problem of evil in early modern English literature
… and dramatic texts (by Spenser, Shakespeare, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton) shed light on the avidity of interest and diversity of approach early modern writers brought to questions of evil. Bringing philological evidence from the literary archive to bear on existing historical-theoretical …