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Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England (review)

Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England (review)  Early American Literature, Volume ,  Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England. By  . Albany: State University of New York Press, . This book is far more ambitious and far less developmentally coherent than its rather bland subtitle may suggest. Rather than focusing on genre or a set of works closely linked by tight historical connections, Laura Henigman develops three wide-ranging case studies of texts produced through pastoral dialogue between female parishioners and male pastors. All three take place in New England between  and , involve women’s writing mediated by ministers, and in some way register changes in pastoral relationships during this transitional period in New En- gland culture, but they are primarily joined in this study, Henigman explains, by a reading strategy that endeavors to be ‘‘sensitive to the diversity of voices and inter- ests within them but that avoids, when appropriate, an overly simplistic story of oppression and resistance within a community’’ (). Scholars of women’s discourse in early America continually wrestle with the absences and editorial manipulations that shape the archive. For better or worse, writing about women’s texts still in- volves an element of ‘‘bringing to light’’ that is http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England (review)

Harvey, Tamara.
Early American Literature , Volume 35 (3) – Nov 1, 2001
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 Early American Literature, Volume ,  Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England. By  . Albany: State University of New York Press, . This book is far more ambitious and far less developmentally coherent than its rather bland subtitle may suggest. Rather than focusing on genre or a set of works closely linked by tight historical connections, Laura Henigman develops three wide-ranging case studies of texts produced through pastoral dialogue between female parishioners and male pastors. All three take place in New England between  and , involve women’s writing mediated by ministers, and in some way register changes in pastoral relationships during this transitional period in New En- gland culture, but they are primarily joined in this study, Henigman explains, by a reading strategy that endeavors to be ‘‘sensitive to the diversity of voices and inter- ests within them but that avoids, when appropriate, an overly simplistic story of oppression and resistance within a community’’ (). Scholars of women’s discourse in early America continually wrestle with the absences and editorial manipulations that shape the archive. For better or worse, writing about women’s texts still in- volves an element of ‘‘bringing to light’’ that is

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Published: Nov 1, 2001

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