'And the eyes of them both were opened': Original Sin in the Poetry of Lucy Hutchinson, Mary Roper and Hester Pulter

继香农米勒的典型作品之后，学者们普遍认为，17世纪的女作家主要从事亚当和夏娃的堕落，因为它提出了关于性别等级、父权制和婚姻的问题。我的论文试图在这场对话中做一个重要的干预，认为他们的利益的范围不能如此狭窄，我们需要同样关注他们的参与与堕落的语言，恩典和认识论的神学和哲学问题的影响。通过研究露西哈钦森，玛丽罗珀和海丝特普尔特的诗歌作品，我将定位各种类型的诗歌，史诗，圣经经文释义，抒情诗，每一个提供独特的机会，通过这些不同的和复杂的神学问题的沉思。

Following the paradigmatic work of Shannon Miller, scholars have generally agreed that seventeenth-century women writers primarily engaged with the Fall of Adam and Eve due to the questions it raises about gender hierarchy, patriarchy, and marriage. My thesis seeks to make a significant intervention in this conversation, arguing that the remit of their interests cannot be so narrowly circumscribed, and that we need to pay equal attention to their engagements with the Fall's implications for theological and philosophical questions of language, grace, and epistemology. Through examining the poetic work of Lucy Hutchinson, Mary Roper and Hester Pulter, I will position various genres of poetry-epic, biblical verse paraphrase, and lyric-as each offering unique opportunities through which to meditate on these diverse and complex theological issues.