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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מחבר ראשי: Cahill, Samara Anne (Author)
מחבר תאגידי: Bucknell University Press
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
סדרה:Transits (Bucknell University)
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
תוכן הענינים:
  • 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?