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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Cahill, Samara Anne (Awdur)
Awdur Corfforaethol: Bucknell University Press
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Cyfres:Transits (Bucknell University)
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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?