When your body is a battlefield: Lucy Hutchinson and the Militarized Womb1

• Published in: The Seventeenth century Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 475 - 483
• Main Author: Murphy, Erin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Routledge 04.05.2023; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: 17th century; Armed forces; Disorder; Hutchinson, Lucy (1620-1681); Literary criticism; Lucy Hutchinson; maternity; Memoirs of the Life of John Hutchinson; Militarism; Order; Poetry; War

The title of Lucy Hutchinson's Genesis poem, Order and Disorder, describes her depictions of reproduction, as she charts both the horrors and the promise of the protoevangelium. The relationship between order and disorder, however, also serves as an apt description of her experiences of war. Th...