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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主要作者: Cahill, Samara Anne (Author)
企業作者: Bucknell University Press
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
叢編:Transits (Bucknell University)
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書本目錄:
  • 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?