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Confession and Authority Negotiating Voice, Identity, and Power in Early Modern Women's Autobiography
Confession and Authority Negotiating Voice, Identity, and Power in Early Modern Women's Autobiography
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103111
- ISBN
- 9798315711728
- DDC
- 830
- 서명/저자
- Confession and Authority Negotiating Voice, Identity, and Power in Early Modern Womens Autobiography
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 227 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Prica, Aleksandra.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Pietist women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries authored a remarkable number of confessional autobiographies, providing rich insight into how marginalized groups utilized writing to challenge prevailing social and religious norms. In this dissertation, I analyze how the defining characteristics of confession-completeness, compulsion, transformation, and self-reflection-intersect with those of autobiography-subjective narration, curated presentation, and voluntariness-to create a potent medium for personal and communal negotiation. Confession integrates the individual into a broader community, whereas autobiography highlights the uniqueness of the author's experience. I argue that Pietist women strategically adopted Augustine's foundational approach to confession and autobiography not to reinforce but to critique societal expectations, thereby consciously crafting a chosen self for their readers. Central to this process is mediation and negotiation, both with their audiences for greater autonomy of voice and between conflicting religious, social, and personal expectations, through which each author transforms admissions of guilt into acts of empowerment.Chapter 1, "Augustine's Confessional Mediation: Establishing Universal Doctrine through Personal Experience," analyzes Augustine's Confessions as a rhetorical model that combines personal narrative with doctrinal authority. Augustine's reflective dialogue with God profoundly influenced subsequent religious autobiographers-including Pietist women, who, unlike Augustine, wrote from positions outside traditional ecclesiastical authority.Chapter 2, "Negotiating Faith and Authority: Claiming Narrative Control through Confession in Anna Maria van Schurman's Eukleria," demonstrates how van Schurman's confessional stance appears to align with Labadist communal expectations while simultaneously preserving her personal convictions. Her strategic merging of confession and autobiography enables her to navigate conflicting demands and establish narrative autonomy.Chapter 3, "A Confession to an Unconventional God: Subverting Traditional Christian Norms through Prophetic Confession in Anna Vetter's Autobiography," examines how Vetter uses her detailed accounts of early sins and subsequent spiritual transformation to frame herself as God's chosen spokesperson. In doing so, she legitimizes her authority to preach within a context deeply skeptical of female spiritual leadership.Chapter 4, "Confession as Resistance: Subverting Accusation to Define Identity and Community in Eleonora Petersen's Autobiography," highlights Petersen's reinterpretation of external accusations as self-defined confessions, thereby reinforcing her place within radical Pietist circles. Her confessional narrative emphasizes innocence, establishing credibility and enabling her to advocate for unconventional theological positions.
- 일반주제명
- German literature
- 일반주제명
- Religion
- 일반주제명
- Womens studies
- 일반주제명
- Biographies
- 일반주제명
- Spirituality
- 키워드
- Autobiography
- 키워드
- Confession
- 키워드
- Pietism
- 키워드
- Rhetoric
- 기타저자
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Carolina-Duke Joint Program in German Studies
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-11A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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