Intelligent Souls? : Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cahill, Samara Anne, 1978- (auteur.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea > 1956- > Schlüsselqualifikationen für die Berufspraxis Englisch
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Themes, motifs.
Âme > Dans la litterature.
Orientalisme (litterature)
Orientbild
Frauenliteratur
English literature.
English literature > Women authors.
Orientalism in literature.
Soul in literature.
Women in literature.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Âme dans la litterature.
Orientalisme dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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?

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