Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women's Aesthetic Approach to Biblical Interpretation

• Published in: Bunyan Studies no. 21; pp. 138 - 140
• Main Author: Bygrave, Stephen
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Authorship; Baillie, Joanna; Bible; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Gender; Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne (1793-1835); Hymns; Literary influences; Literary translation; Poetry; Political activism; Politics; Priestley, Joseph (1733-1804); Readers; Religion; Religious music; Slavery; Theology; Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784); Williams, Joanna; Women; Writers; Oregon; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US

Sensibility could clearly have a political impact, as in poems of the anti-slavery movement by (among others) Helen Maria Williams, 'the most politically radical' of Duquette's subjects, who 'bridges Edmund Burke's false theological and aesthetic division between the punitiv...