"Foretelling the judgements of God": authorship and the prophetic voice in Elizabeth Poole's A Vision (1648)
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Carme Font Paz [1]
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[1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, España
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- Localización: Journal of English Studies, ISSN 1576-6357, Nº 11, 2013, págs. 97-112
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdome (1648) is Elizabeth Poole�s account of the prophecies she delivered before Cromwell and the Puritan Army�s General Council as they debated the regicide of Charles I at the end of the first English Civil War in 1648-49. This article discusses the prophetic voice in Elizabeth Poole�s texts as she uses strategies of �self� and �others� to establish her authority before her audience and her own sectarian group. While the circumstances surrounding Poole�s participation in the Whitehall deliberations are unclear, her appearance represents a rare case of a woman�s direct involvement in the mid-seventeenth-century discussions of the scope and legitimacy of government. With her defying anti regicidal speech, Poole builds her authorial voice beyond the divine mandate of her prophetic identity.
