Memory, Community and Textuality in Nonconformist Life‐Writings, 1760‐1810

This article asks why memorial writing was so important for religious Dissenters in the eighteenth century, and what the role of women was in the production of nonconformist culture, by investigating the material circumstances of production, preservation and dissemination of life‐writings. It introd...

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Published inJournal for eighteenth-century studies Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 163 - 178
Main Author Whitehouse, Tessa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hatfield Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2018
Subjects
18th century
biography
deathbed
Dissent
editing
life‐writing
Religion
Women
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Summary:This article asks why memorial writing was so important for religious Dissenters in the eighteenth century, and what the role of women was in the production of nonconformist culture, by investigating the material circumstances of production, preservation and dissemination of life‐writings. It introduces the editorial and commemorative activities of Mercy Doddridge and Jane Attwater, asks how a writer's confessional identity might find its way into the structure and content of her writing and compares processes of composition for printed texts with the compilation and preservation of manuscript records.
ISSN:1754-0194
1754-0208
DOI:10.1111/1754-0208.12529