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• W1534421743 abstract "Kathleen Lynch. Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century Anglophone World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii+321 pp. $99.00. Review by MARION A. WELLS, MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Protestant Autobiography contributes in a number of important ways to current themes in early modern scholarship. By exploring the social and political contexts of the devotional autobiographical narratives she selects from the politically turbulent years of the seventeenth century Lynch offers intricately historicized account of the constructed in and through such writings. Lynch's work engages with the ongoing exploration of self and subjectivity in early modern studies, as well as with more recent local explorations of the kinds of life-writing (especially devotional life-writing) that are hard to categorize within traditional genres. In addition, Protestant Autobiography emphasizes the extension of the developments in spiritual autobiography throughout the Atlantic Anglophone world; the book touches down in Bermuda, England, Ireland, and the colonies in North America, deftly weaving together developments in each location and highlighting the complex parallels among them. One of the most interesting issues that the book scrutinizes is the epistemological status of experience. As Lynch puts it in her introduction: spiritual was a narrated apprehension of ontological state: I am saved (28). The book surveys the contested uses of such spiritual experiences, arguing that because experience is not a historically stable entity it is necessary to attend closely to the particular cultural circumstances that make certain kinds of experiences validating and authentic (174). It is precisely the range and depth of Lynch's historical sources that bring this challenging project to life in her book. Chapter One introduces the vexed history of the reception of Augustine's Confessions in the context of the polemics of conversion in 1620s England. The textual history of the translation of this text in English makes for a fascinating lens through which to read the clash between Protestant and Catholic claims to religious authority, and Lynch artfully draws attention to the ways in which the truth claims of Augustine's text became politically contestable during this period. The inclusion of a study of John Donne against Augustine's redactors in this chapter works especially well, given Donne's own conflicted relationship with the politics of conversion. Lynch considers two different kinds of conversions (from one church to another, and from life to death) in her reading of Donne's Pseudo-Martyr (1609) and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624) and the depth of her contextual material gives these somewhat familiar texts a newly complicated resonance. In chapter Two Lynch juxtaposes two very different iconic figures: King Charles, whose Eikon Basilike establishes in exemplary form the political and social function of personal testimonies of belief; and Sarah Wight, an empty nothing creature (74) whose nonconformist text The Exceeding Riches of Grace (1674) used personal testimony from a very different platform. Lynch's discussion of Sarah Wight's spiritual authority necessarily engages with exploration of the role of gender in the generation of personal testimony. The mutual imbrication of narrative, gender, and spiritual authority opens up some fascinating questions, which Lynch begins to address in her discussion of Wight's embodiment of passive, patient receptivity throughout a time of spiritual trials (85). As in Chapter Three, where Lynch also includes a discussion of the role of particular women writers, including most prominently the Baptist writer Jane Turner, a more sustained analysis of the role of gender in Lynch's chosen texts would perhaps have been helpful, if only to draw out in more a systematic way the connections between body, self, and narrative that the women writers help to complicate within Lynch's own text. …" @default.
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