LEADER 03283nam 22006134a 450 001 9910816698903321 005 20240926132633.0 010 $a1-315-59408-0 010 $a1-317-10009-3 010 $a1-317-10008-5 010 $a1-281-10409-4 010 $a9786611104092 010 $a0-7546-8411-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000406400 035 $a(EBL)438447 035 $a(OCoLC)320322427 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000198447 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183470 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198447 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10170213 035 $a(PQKB)11736327 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438447 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10211039 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL922532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438447 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB161383 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000406400 100 $a20060215d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMary Astell $ereason, gender, faith /$fedited by William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAldershot, England ;$aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7546-5264-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aMary 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. 606 $aFeminism$zGreat Britain$xHistory 615 0$aFeminism$xHistory. 676 $a305.42092 701 $aKolbrener$b William$0774603 701 $aMichelson$b Michal$f1954-$01632408 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816698903321 996 $aMary Astell$93971514 997 $aUNINA