Eliza's Babes, Or, The Virgin's Offering (1652): A Critical Edition

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2001 - Literary Criticism - 202 pages
"The commentary section supplies bibliographical sources and quotations, identifies every instance of editorial change to the text, glosses archaic words and explains obscure syntax. Semler's commentary is rich with citations of seventeenth-century devotional literature. This allows the reader of Eliza's Babes to rediscover some of the original contexts of its ideas and expressions and opens up many avenues for further research."--BOOK JACKET.
 

Contents

Acknowledgments
9
Introduction
13
PUBLISHING AND EXPERIENCING THE GOSPEL
21
MARRIAGE TO CHRIST LITERARY BABES AND THE PLAIN STYLE
28
EARTHLY MARRIAGE SILENCE AND EXEMPLARITY
32
MEDITATIVE PRACTICE AND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES
38
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
43
Bibliography of Works Relating to Elizas Babes
46
OR THE VirginsOffering
56
Textual Notes and Commentary
135
Index of Poem and Meditation Titles in Elizas Babes
195
Index of Authors and Works Referred to in Introduction and Commentary
197
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