Background
Mrs. Doriani was born on January 6, 1961, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. She was a daughter of William N. (a business executive) and Betty (a homemaker; maiden name, Boucher) Maclay.
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How do women, historically excluded from the role of preacher because of their gender, gain authority to assume a prophetic voice? What rhetorical strategies can empower the woman who would claim the role of prophet? In this book, Beth Maclay Doriani looks at the ways Emily Dickinson addressed these questions in the context of patriarchal nineteenth-century New England. She explores some of the central strategies Dickinson used to claim both poetic and religious authority and to join the ranks of the self-proclaimed prophets of her day―literary figures like Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, as well as a host of preachers and other popular orators. Dickinson drew on the prophetic tradition she knew best: the Judeo-Christian legacy that included both scriptural prophetic writings and the preaching of nineteenth-century Protestantism. Remarkably, the voice that emerged in response to these patriarchal sources was distinctly female. Despite entrenched cultural opposition to the idea of the woman prophet, Dickinson was able to craft her own understanding of the female seer, developing a singular voice that not only indicts but also sings, consoles, and wonders.
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Mrs. Doriani was born on January 6, 1961, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. She was a daughter of William N. (a business executive) and Betty (a homemaker; maiden name, Boucher) Maclay.
Beth Doriani graduated from Calvin College, from which she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983. In 1986 Mrs. Doriani received her Master of Arts from Kent State University. In 1990 she became a graduate of University of Notre Dame, receiving Doctor of Philosophy degree.
From 1986 to 1988 Mrs. Doriani worked as a staff member of Religion and Literature. In 1990 she was appointed assistant professor of English at Northwestern College, Orange City, IA, in 1994 she became a department head. Since 1990 Mrs. Doriani joined Bread for the World, Between 1992 and 1995 she was a member of board of directors of 1 Orange City Day Care.
She is known to be a contributor to books, including Poetry Criticism, Specialize in the Wholly Impossible": A Reader in Black Women's History, and also a contributor of articles and reviews to journals, including Studies in Puritan American Spirituality, Emily Dickinson Journal, American Quarterly, and Early American Literature.
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Member American Association of University Women, Modern Language Association (American Literature section), Emily Dickinson International Society.
Mrs. Doriani married Christopher W. Doriani on June 4, 1983. They have three children: Kara, Andrew, Joelle.