‘Foretelling the judgements of God’: authorship and the prophetic voice in Elizabeth Poole’s A Vision (1648)

Carme Font Paz

doi:10.18172/jes.2619

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Carme Font Paz Autonomous University of Barcelona

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https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.2619

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Escritoras del Renacimiento, autoría, escritura profética, siglo XVII

Resumen

A Vision: Wherein is Manifested the Disease and Cure of the Kingdome (1648) es el relato de Elizabeth Poole de las profecías que comunicó ante Cromwell y el Consejo General del Ejército puritano mientras debatía el regicidio de Carlos I de Inglaterra al término de la primera Guerra Civil en 1648-49. Este artículo aborda la voz profética de los textos de Elizabeth Poole en el uso que ella hace de las estrategias del “yo” y los “demás” cuando intenta establecer su autoridad ante el público y el grupo sectario al que ella representa. Aunque las circunstancias que rodearon la participación de Poole en las deliberaciones de Whitehall son poco claras, su comparecencia supone un caso único de implicación directa de una mujer en los debates sobre el alcance y la legitimidad del gobierno a mediados del siglo XVII. Con su desafiante discurso anti regicida, Poole construye su voz de autora más allá del mandato divino que le otorga su identidad profética.

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