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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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Cahill, Samara Anne (Údar)
Údar corparáideach: Bucknell University Press
Formáid: Licensed eBooks
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Sraith:Transits (Bucknell University)
Rochtain ar líne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
Clár na nÁbhar:
  • 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?