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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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Cahill, Samara Anne (Autor)
Autor kompanije: Bucknell University Press
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Serija:Transits (Bucknell University)
Online pristup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
Sadržaj:
  • 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?