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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書誌詳細
第一著者: Cahill, Samara Anne (著者)
団体著者: Bucknell University Press
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
シリーズ:Transits (Bucknell University)
オンライン・アクセス:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
目次:
  • 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?