'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（Shannon Miller）的典范作品之后，学者们普遍认为，17世纪的女作家主要关注亚当和夏娃的堕落，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出重大的干预，认为他们的利益范围不能如此狭隘地限制，我们需要同等关注他们对堕落的神学和哲学问题的影响，如语言、恩典和认识论。通过研究露西·哈钦森、玛丽·罗珀和海丝特·普尔的诗歌作品，我将把不同类型的诗歌——史诗、圣经经文转述和抒情诗——定位为每一种诗歌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.