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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Үндсэн зохиолч: Cahill, Samara Anne (Зохиогч)
Байгууллагын зохиогч: Bucknell University Press
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Хэл сонгох:англи
Хэвлэсэн: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Цуврал:Transits (Bucknell University)
Онлайн хандалт:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
Агуулга:
  • 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?