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Mary Astell : reason, gender, faith / edited by William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Kolbrener, William.
Michelson, Michal, 1954-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Astell, Mary, 1666-1731--Criticism and interpretation.
Astell, Mary.
Astell, Mary, 1666-1731--Political and social views.
Astell, Mary, 1666-1731--Religion.
Feminism--Great Britain--History.
Feminism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith includes essays from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to consider the full range of Astell's political, theological, philosophical, and poetic writings. The volume's contributors show Astell to have had few parallels among her contemporaries, bestowing upon her the attention that she deserves-not merely as a proto-feminist, but as a major figure of the early modern period.
Contents:
"Dreading to engage her" : the critical reception of Mary Astell / William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson
Mary Astell, religion, and feminism : texts in motion / Sharon Achinstein
Mary Astell, A serious proposal to the ladies (1694), and the Anglican reformation of manners in late-seventeenth-century England / Hannah Smith
Astell's "design of friendship" in letters and A serious proposal, part 1 / William Kolbrener
Mary Astell and John Locke / Mark Goldie
Mary Astell's law of the heart / Corrinne Harol
Religious nonconformity and the problem of dissent in the works of Aphra Behn and Mary Astell / Melinda Zook
"Great in humilitie" : a consideration of Mary Astell's poetry / Claire Pickard
"Tis better that I endure" : Mary Astell's exclusion of equity / Ann Jessie Van Sant
Mary Astell on the causation of sensation / Eileen O'Neill
Astell, Cartesian ethics, and the critique of custom / Jacqueline Broad
Are you experienced? : Astell, Locke, and education / E. Derek Taylor
"Cry up liberty" : the political context for Mary Astell's feminism / Hilda L. Smith.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index.
Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
ISBN:
1-315-59408-0
1-317-10009-3
1-317-10008-5
1-281-10409-4
9786611104092
0-7546-8411-3
9781315594088
OCLC:
320322427

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