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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Автор: Cahill, Samara Anne (Автор)
Співавтор: Bucknell University Press
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Серія:Transits (Bucknell University)
Онлайн доступ:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
Зміст:
  • 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?