Jane Lead and her transnational legacy. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ariel Hessayon.
• Editors: Hessayon, Ariel
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Jane Lead's legacy in perspective byAriel Hessayon. -2. Lead's life and times (part one): before widowhood byAriel Hessayon. -3. Lead's life and times (part two): the woman in the wilderness byAriel Hessayon. -4. Lead's life and times (part three): the Philadelphian Society byAriel Hessayon. -5. Jane Lead and the tradition of puritan pastoral theology byAmanda Capern. -6. Jane Lead and English apocalyptic thought in the late seventeenth century byWarren Johnston. -7. The restitution of 'Adam's Angelical and Paradisiacal Body' in Jane Lead's metaphor ofrebirth byStefani Salvadori. -8. Mystical divinity in the manuscript writings of Jane Lead and Ann Bathurst bySarah Apetrei. -9. 'God's Strange Providence': Jane Lead in the correspondence of Johann Georg Gichtel byLucinda Martin. -10. Philadelphia Resurrected: celebrating the Union Act from Irenic to ScatologicalEschatology byLionel Laborie. -11. Jane Lead's prophetic afterlife in the nineteenth-century English Atlantic byPhilip Lockley. -12. 'A prophecy out of the past': contrasting treatments of Jane Lead among two NorthAmerican twentieth-century millenarian movements – Mary's City of David and the LatterRain byBridget Jacobs.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 248.22092; History; History -- Social History; Social & cultural history; Social history; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; British & Irish history; Political and social views
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137396143
• Related ISBNs: 9781137396136
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.