WHAT AN COLLINS WAS READING

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An Collins' 1653 collection of poems, Divine Songs and Meditacions, contains all that we know about the writer. But in these poems, she tells us much about the books that she had read, and about her indebtedness to the catechetical works of the Elizabethan Puritan theologian William Perkins in particular. By varying the degree to which her source texts are visible, Collins also tells us about her political affiliations. We can now place her among the Presbyterians of the 1650s. The method of reading outlined here, attending to the relative visibility of source texts being quoted and paraphrased, will be of use to scholars investigating formulaic genres like meditations and prayersa??genres in which women writers were particularly active in the early modern period.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true,"ui_click":true}; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2012.712307