Rachel Adcock's Outputs (20)

Fires and Feasting: Political Festivity in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays (2025)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (in press). Fires and Feasting: Political Festivity in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays. Women's Writing, 32(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2025.2483028

This essay situates Aphra Behn’s plays, The Roundheads (1681/2) and The City-Heiress (1682), in the ongoing contest for physical and ideological control of the City of London during the Exclusion Crisis. In particular, it considers their dramatisatio... Read More about Fires and Feasting: Political Festivity in Behn’s Exclusion Crisis Plays.

Introduction: Aphra Behn’s Later Work, New Interpretations (2025)
Journal Article
Adcock, R., & Rubik, M. (in press). Introduction: Aphra Behn’s Later Work, New Interpretations. Women's Writing, 32(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2025.2483021

The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution (2025)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (in press). The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution. The Seventeenth Century, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2024.2440243

Shaping Baptist Congregational Identities in Southwest England: The Loughwood 'Proceedings Book' (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Adcock, R. (2023, April). Shaping Baptist Congregational Identities in Southwest England: The Loughwood 'Proceedings Book'

Sutton, Katherine (2023)
Book Chapter
Adcock, R. (2023). Sutton, Katherine. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Springer

The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost <b>The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost</b> , by Marilyn J. Westerkamp, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp., £19.99, (hb), ISBN: 9780197506905 (2022)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2024). The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: an extraordinary woman, the puritan patriarchs, and the world they made and lost , by Marilyn J. Westerkamp, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp., £19.99, (hb), ISBN: 9780197506905. Baptist Quarterly, 55(1), 32-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/0005576x.2022.2107348

Aphra Behn's The City Heiress. In The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. IV: Plays 1682-96 (General eds. Mel Evans, Elaine Hobby, Gillian Wright, Claire Bowditch) (2021)
Other
Adcock. (2021). Aphra Behn's The City Heiress. In The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. IV: Plays 1682-96 (General eds. Mel Evans, Elaine Hobby, Gillian Wright, Claire Bowditch)

Beaumont, Agnes (2020)
Book Chapter
Adcock, R. (2020). Beaumont, Agnes. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4

Believers’ Baptism, Commemoration, and Communal Identity in Revolutionary England (2020)
Book Chapter
Adcock. (2020). Believers’ Baptism, Commemoration, and Communal Identity in Revolutionary England. In Memory and the English Reformation (388 - 402)

This chapter explores literary representations of believers’ baptism published during the English Revolution. It focuses, in particular, on two surviving testimonies recounting participation in the ordinance originating in Fifth Monarchist communitie... Read More about Believers’ Baptism, Commemoration, and Communal Identity in Revolutionary England.

Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections (2020)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2020). Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/kd1t-g977

This paper advocates for the use of learner-centred teaching activities and enquiry-based assessment through reflection on the organisation of a FHEQ Level 5 seventeenth-century English literature module. While English is a subject where, traditional... Read More about Developing Graduate Skills through Studying Seventeenth-Century Literature: Some Reflections.

Women and Gender (2020)
Book Chapter
Adcock, R. (2020). Women and Gender. . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702238.003.0021

Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2018). Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain. Women's Writing, 25(3), 409-411. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2018.1436378

Flesh and Spirit: An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing (2016)
Book
Adcock, R., Read, S., & Ziomek, A. (Eds.). (2016). Flesh and Spirit: An anthology of seventeenth-century women's writing. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1mf704p

Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680 (2015)
Book
Adcock. (2015). Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680

Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist wo... Read More about Baptist Women's Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680.

"Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682) (2014)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2014). "Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682). Women's Writing, 34 -55. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2014.941182

Aphra Behn’s The Roundheads (1st perf. 1681, pub. 1682) was produced during a propaganda battle between the Whigs and Tories and set during the Interregnum in order to draw parallels between parliamentary usurpation and the Whig plea for
“liberty an... Read More about "Jack Presbyter in His Proper Habit": subverting Whig rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682).

Review: Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England, Sarah E. Johnson (2014)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2014). Review: Staging Women and the Soul-Body Dynamic in Early Modern England, Sarah E. Johnson

Review: A Company of Women Preachers: Baptist Prophetesses in Seventeenth-Century England, a Reader, ed. by Curtis W. Freeman (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011) (2012)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2012). Review: A Company of Women Preachers: Baptist Prophetesses in Seventeenth-Century England, a Reader, ed. by Curtis W. Freeman (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2011). Seventeenth Century, 237 -238

"As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642) (2011)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2011). "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642). Prose Studies, 1 -18. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2011.568778

When Sara Jones spoke in front of her separatist congregation in 1632, she was opening herself up to criticism for going against scriptural precedents: it was not divinely sanctioned that women should speak in church. Perhaps deriving confidence from... Read More about "As Shee Preachers Hold Forth Christ": Sara Jones's Challenge to Episcopacy, The Relation of a Gentlewoman (1642).

"Like to an anatomy before us": Deborah Huish's spiritual experiences and the attempt to establish the fifth monarchy (2011)
Journal Article
Adcock, R. (2011). "Like to an anatomy before us": Deborah Huish's spiritual experiences and the attempt to establish the fifth monarchy. Seventeenth Century, 44 -68. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2011.10555658

Anne Venn's A Wise Virgin's Lamp Burning (1658) in the Household of Anne Dunch, Sister-in-law to Richard Cromwell (2010)
Journal Article
Adcock. (2010). Anne Venn's A Wise Virgin's Lamp Burning (1658) in the Household of Anne Dunch, Sister-in-law to Richard Cromwell. Notes and Queries, 501 -503. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjq130