Article Title
Abstract
Critics have debated at length whether George Fox's Journal is primarily to be understood within the tradition of seventeenth-century autobiographical writing, or as an historical account of the early Quaker movement. This article suggests that this is a false dichotomy, and argues instead that the Journal might be reconceived as a 'technology of presence': that is, in its attention both to the figure of Fox and to the detailed chronicling of time and place, its principal narrative impetus was to record, demonstrate and reproduce the presence of the returned and indwelling Christ. The Journal thus constitutes, in its form and narrative procedure, an enactment of core Quaker belief.
Recommended Citation
Hinds, Hilary and Findlay, Alison
(2008)
"The Journal of George Fox: A Technology of Presence,"
Quaker Studies: Vol. 12
:
Iss.
1
, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerstudies/vol12/iss1/7