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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Hlavní autor: Cahill, Samara Anne (Autor)
Korporativní autor: Bucknell University Press
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Edice:Transits (Bucknell University)
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Obsah:
  • 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?