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

在香农·米勒的典范著作之后，学者们普遍认为，17世纪的女作家主要致力于亚当和夏娃的衰落，因为它提出了关于性别等级制度、父权制和婚姻的问题。我的论文试图在这场对话中进行重大干预，认为他们的利益范围不能如此狭隘，我们需要同样关注他们与秋天对语言、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，我将把各种体裁的诗歌--史诗、圣经诗句释义和抒情--定位为每一种都提供了独特的机会，通过它们来思考这些多样而复杂的神学问题。

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.