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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Autore principale: Cahill, Samara Anne (Autore)
Ente Autore: Bucknell University Press
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Serie:Transits (Bucknell University)
Accesso online:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
Sommario:
  • 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?