Epilogue: A Kind of Sensible Justice

This brief epilogue revisits prominent early modern commentaries on revenge in order to show how theater, by doing philosophy in the ways illuminated in the book, investigates in a more expansive manner the relation between ontological assumption and embodied action found in the era's expository prose. Early modern authors commonly describe justice, in whatever form it takes, as the sensible scourges delivered by the invisible hand of God. In closing, this chapter discusses theater's distinctive capacity for exploring – with considerable more latitude than possible in didactic texts centered on religious, legal, or political theory – the complexities inherent in tracing embodied action to its various ontological roots.

Lexical standards for expository writing at Grade 3:The transition from early literacy to academic literacy

This article reports on an investigation of vocabulary thresholds across four standards of writing quality for grade 3 children. An expository prompt was used to elicit first draft writing from 222 students. A quota sampling strategy was used to create a learner corpus of 80 papers. Online lexical profiling tools were used to generate indices of lexical richness. Distinct differences in vocabulary use were noted between quality standards, in particular the ability to access low frequency words among the samples judged of excellent quality. Pedagogical implications emerge for classroom practitioners to address the language learning needs of linguistically vulnerable youngsters.Key words: expository prose, writing, transitional literacy, vocabulary profiling

Daughters of Eve: The Labouring-class Autobiographical Hermeneutics of Two Romantic-Era English Prophetesses, Dorothy Gott (c.1748–1812) and Joanna Southcott (1750–1814)

This article explores the rich seam of female prophetic writing in Romantic-era England by comparing and contrasting two of the most significant millenarian prophetesses of the period: Dorothy Gott and Joanna Southcott. The literary significance of these figures has remained underexplored, in spite of the two women's striking use of life writing in their millenarian texts, which included spiritual autobiography; the typological interpretation of personal incidents; the inclusion of autobiographical verse amidst expository prose to convey the sense of God's divine voice speaking through the untaught woman; and the appendage of personal letters contemporaneous with the timeline of chronicled events in order to provide evidence for the prophetess's authenticity. In this study, we uncover the women's respective autobiographical hermeneutics and assess their literary significance, particularly in developing a range of textual practices that sought to counter their disadvantaged class and gender positions as labouring-class female spiritual leaders unable to claim established theological or ecclesiological authority.