Recovering Lost Female Voices: Gender, Theology and Politics in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder

我的论文试图恢复露西·哈钦森的声音，她是一位17世纪的共和党人和清教徒，在英国内战期间在诺丁汉写作。我的研究重点是哈钦森对1679年匿名印刷的《创世纪：有序与无序》的评论。我的目标是将这部史诗重新置于哈钦森与她的政治和宗教环境的关系中，包括保皇党和共和党之间的两极分化立场，以及阿民念派和新教徒等宗教派别之间的类型学争论。很少有人关注哈钦森的“宗教实践”（DD/HU/3），这是一本个人的普通书籍，记录了她从1650年到1675年的神学演变，与君主制复辟后态度的变化有关。这本普通的书在2018年只出版了一部分，这意味着还没有大量的学术研究将哈钦森的个人信仰陈述读到《秩序与无序》的潜台词中。本项目将：研究《有序与无序》中哈钦森的神学演变与共和思想；调查君主制复辟后哈钦森的政治和宗教信仰的影响；将哈钦森的观点与她的文学同行进行比较，例如共和党人约翰·弥尔顿（《四面楚歌》）、托马斯·霍布斯（《利维坦》）和保皇党人玛格丽特·卡文迪什；质疑诺布鲁克所说的哈钦森“缺乏自信的女性声音”，以及这如何阻碍了她的作品的衰落和研究。在我本科研究的基础上，我的硕士学位使我能够进一步探索露西·哈钦森在诺丁汉县档案馆的语料库，同时也给了我在早期现代编辑实践和转录、古文字和书籍历史方面的经验。诺丁汉大学是我进行研究的最佳场所。英国内战期间，哈钦森住在诺丁汉城堡，诺丁汉郡档案馆保存着她作品的大部分原始手稿。艾莉森·布姆克博士是17世纪文学专家，他将于2020年6月组织露西·哈钦森大学的国际研究研讨会，这是为了纪念哈钦森诞辰400周年。这次研讨会是一个更大的项目的一部分，这个项目是关于英国内战中的女性写作的，这个项目将在接下来的3到5年里由大学主办。琳达·普拉特教授创立了诺丁汉大学的地区文学和文化中心，以促进与诺丁汉遗产和文学的接触。她在“失踪”作者的文本和上下文恢复方面也具有公认的专业知识。吉莉安·赖特博士专门研究复辟时期的诗歌和书籍历史。

My thesis seeks to recover the voice of Lucy Hutchinson, a seventeenth-century Republican and Puritan writing in Nottingham during the English Civil War. My research focuses on Hutchinson's commentary on The Book of Genesis, Order and Disorder which was anonymously printed in 1679. I aim to recontextualize the epic in relation to how Hutchinson engages with her political and religious environment, including the polarizing stances between Royalists and Republicans and typological disputes between religious sects such as Arminians and Protestants. Little attention has been paid to Hutchinson's 'religious exercizes,' (DD/HU/3) a personal commonplace book charting her theological evolution from 1650-1675, correlating with changing attitudes following the Restoration of the monarchy. The commonplace book has only been partially published in 2018, meaning that extensive scholarship has yet to be done on reading Hutchinson's personal statements of belief into the sub-text of Order and Disorder.This project will:Research Hutchinson's theological evolution and Republican ideology in Order and Disorder.; Investigate the implications of Hutchinson's political and religious affiliations following the Restoration of the monarchy;Compare Hutchinson's views to that of her literary peers, e.g. fellow Republicans John Milton(Tetrachordon), Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan) and the Royalist Margaret Cavendish; To question what Norbrook terms Hutchinson's 'lack of an assertive female voice' and how this has obstructed the recension and study of her work.Building on my undergraduate research, my MA has allowed me to further explore Lucy Hutchinson's corpus at the Nottingham County Archives alongside giving me experience in early modern editorial practices and transcriptions, paleography and book history. The University of Nottingham is the best place for me to conduct my research. Hutchinson lived in Nottingham Castle during the English Civil War, and the Nottingham County Archives hold most of the original manuscripts of her work. Dr Alison Bumke, a specialist in seventeenth-century literature is organizing the University's international research symposium on Lucy Hutchinson in June 2020, which is timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Hutchinson's birth. This symposium is part of a larger project on women's writing of the English Civil War that the University will host over the next 3 to 5years. Professor Lynda Pratt founded the University's Centre for Regional Literature and Culture, which promotes engagement with Nottingham heritage and literature. She also has proven expertise in the textual and contextual recovery of 'lost' authors. Dr. Gillian Wright specializes in Restoration poetry and book history.