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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Tác giả chính: Cahill, Samara Anne (Tác giả)
Tác giả của công ty: Bucknell University Press
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Loạt:Transits (Bucknell University)
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2486095
Mục lục:
  • 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?