Textual Practice
Textual Practice

Author: Lindsay Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1134805047

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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible
Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible

Author: Christiana de Groot

Publisher: SBL Press

Published: 2018-04-25

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1589838343

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Women have been thoughtful readers and interpreters of scripture throughout the ages, yet the usual history of biblical interpretation includes few women’s voices. To introduce readers to this untapped source for the history of biblical interpretation, this volume presents forgotten works from the nineteenth century written by women—including Grace Aguilar, Florence Nightingale, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others—from various faith backgrounds, countries, and social classes engaging contemporary biblical scholarship. Due to their exclusion from the academy, women’s interpretive writings addressed primarily a nonscholarly audience and were written in a variety of genres: novels and poetry, catechisms, manuals for Bible study, and commentaries on the books of the Bible. To recover these nineteenth-century women interpreters of the Bible, each essay in this volume locates a female author in her historical, ecclesiastical, and interpretive context, focusing on particular biblical passages to clarify an author’s contributions as well as to explore how her reading of the text was shaped by her experience as a woman.

Science in the Nursery
Science in the Nursery

Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-01-18

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1443828297

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This edited collection aims to examine the popularisation of science for children in Britain and France from the middle of the eighteenth century to the end of the Victorian period. It compares and contrasts for the first time popular science works published at the same time in the two countries, focusing both on non-fictional and fictional texts. Starting when children’s literature emerged as a genre to the end of the nineteenth century it addresses the ways in which popular science for children engaged with wider debates and issues, concerning such topics as gender or religion. Each individual essays brings home how children’s literature revealed contemporary tensions which professional scientists confronted. The wide range of scientific topics examined, from physics and astronomy to natural history and anthropology, offers a large spectrum of types of popular science works for children.