Intelligent souls? : feminist orientalism in eighteenth-century English literature /

"Do women have souls? Christianity has traditionally held the soul to be the seat of reason, intelligence, humanity, immortality, and moral agency. But the Book of Genesis never says that God breathed a soul into Eve. Women's souls thus became significant in Reformation satires as Protesta...

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Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Cahill, Samara Anne (Autor)
Autor corporatiu: Bucknell University Press
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Col·lecció:Transits (Bucknell University)
Accés en línia:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: foreign intelligence
  • The negative ideal
  • Minding the gap
  • The canal of pleasure
  • A "foreign and uninteresting" subject
  • The "Mahometan strain"
  • Epilogue: save our souls?