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1 online resource (x, 219 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-214) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Astell, Mary, 1666-1731 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Astell, Mary, 1666-1731. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Astell, Mary, 1666-1731 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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Astell, Mary, 1666-1731 -- Religion.
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Religion. |
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Astell, Mary. |
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Feminism -- Great Britain -- History.
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Feminism. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Kolbrener, William.
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Michelson, Michal, 1954-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mary Astell. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007 (DLC) 2006005233 |
| ISBN |
9780754684114 (electronic book) |
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0754684113 (electronic book) |
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0754652645 (alkaline paper) |
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9780754652649 (alkaline paper) |
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