RT Article
T1 Rewriting Epic and Redefining Glory in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder
JF Christianity & literature
VO 69
IS 3
SP 399
OP 417
A1 Garey, Wesley
LA English
PB Johns Hopkins University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1738956199
AB Since the 1999 rediscovery of Order and Disorder, her epic-length paraphrase of Genesis, the Puritan poet Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) has received a well-deserved critical revaluation, drawing attention to her Reformed poetics and her Lucretius translation. However, surprisingly little scholarship has examined Hutchinson’s interest in Virgil’s Aeneid, which takes up substantial space in her commonplace book. In this essay, I argue that Hutchinson’s biblical epic intertextually draws on the Aeneid to contrast the glory of Aeneas and Augustus with that of Abraham, suggesting that true glory consists not of conquest, but of humbly receiving divine blessing and extending it to others.
K1 Lucy Hutchinson
K1 Order and Disorder
K1 Virgil
K1 biblical epic
K1 classical epic
DO 10.1353/chy.2020.0040