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    Intelligent souls? : feminist orientalism in eighteenth-century English literature (2019)
    Lewisburg, PA :Bucknell University Press,
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    Format: 232 Seiten ; , 25 cm.
    ISBN: 978-1-68448-098-2 , 978-1-68448-097-5 , 9781684481002
    Series Statement: Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
    Content: "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 Protestants and Catholics debated whether scripture alone or institutional authority ought to determine interpretation. In England, these satires eventually intersected with what scholars have called the "Trinitarian Controversy," a dispute about the nature of Christ that paralleled the interpretive difficulty regarding the nature of women's souls. In order to marginalize heterodox thinkers who claimed that Christ was not of the same substance as God the Father, orthodox Anglicans collapsed the distinction between schism and heresy by comparing heterodox Christians to a sexualized stereotype of Muslim despots. Part of this stereotype was the (erroneous) claim that Muslim doctrine asserted that women did not have souls and could only experience physical, not intellectual, pleasure. Thus, the problem of competing Christian biblical interpretations could be foisted onto a stereotype of Muslim men as brutal, self-serving misogynists. Englishwomen soon took up the trope to argue that a truly enlightened, and necessarily Christian, Englishman would support improvements in women's education--and feminist orientalism was born"--
    Note: 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?
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-1-68448-099-9
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, web pdf ISBN 978-1-68448-101-9
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, mobi ISBN 978-1-68448-100-2
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HK 1091
    Keywords: Englisch ; Orientalisierende Literatur ; Seele ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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    Intelligent Souls? : Feminist Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century English Literature (2019)
    Lewisburg, PA :Bucknell University Press,
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    almafu_9959403170702883
    Format: 1 online resource (250 p.)
    ISBN: 1-68448-101-5
    Series Statement: Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
    Content: "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 Protestants and Catholics debated whether scripture alone or institutional authority ought to determine interpretation. In England, these satires eventually intersected with what scholars have called the "Trinitarian Controversy," a dispute about the nature of Christ that paralleled the interpretive difficulty regarding the nature of women's souls. In order to marginalize heterodox thinkers who claimed that Christ was not of the same substance as God the Father, orthodox Anglicans collapsed the distinction between schism and heresy by comparing heterodox Christians to a sexualized stereotype of Muslim despots. Part of this stereotype was the (erroneous) claim that Muslim doctrine asserted that women did not have souls and could only experience physical, not intellectual, pleasure. Thus, the problem of competing Christian biblical interpretations could be foisted onto a stereotype of Muslim men as brutal, self-serving misogynists. Englishwomen soon took up the trope to argue that a truly enlightened, and necessarily Christian, Englishman would support improvements in women's education--and feminist orientalism was born"--
    Note: Comprend des références bibliographiques (pages 205-221) et un index. , 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? , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-68448-098-1
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-68448-097-3
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HK 1091
    Keywords: Criticism, interpretation, etc. ; Criticism, interpretation, etc.
    DOI: 10.36019/9781684481019
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684481019
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684481019
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    Intelligent souls? : feminist orientalism in eighteenth-century English literature (2019)
    Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press
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    gbv_1690215607
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (232 Seiten)
    ISBN: 9781684481019 , 9781684480999 , 9781684481002
    Series Statement: Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
    Content: Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century Britain. Samara A. Cahill explores two overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam, which produce the phenomenon of “feminist orientalism.” One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents. A second strand tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s. The confluence of these discourses compounded if not wholly produced the stereotype that Islam denied women intelligent souls. Surprisingly, women writers of the period accepted the stereotype, but used it for their own purposes. Rowe, Carter, Lennox, More, and Wollstonecraft, Cahill argues, established common ground with men by leveraging the “otherness” identified with Islam to dispute British culture’s assumption that British women were lacking in intelligence, selfhood, or professional abilities. When Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman she accepted that view as true—and “feminist orientalism” was born, introducing a fallacy about Islam to the West that persists to this day. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press
    Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Foreign Intelligence -- 1. The Negative Ideal -- 2. Minding the Gap -- 3. The Canal of Pleasure -- 4. A “Foreign and Uninteresting” Subject -- 5. The “Mahometan Strain” -- Epilogue: Save Our Souls? -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author -- Transits
    Note: restricted access online access with authorization star , Includes bibliographical references and index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781684480982
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781684480975
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cahill, Samara Anne Intelligent souls? Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781684480975
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781684480982
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HK 1091
    Keywords: Englisch ; Orientalisierende Literatur ; Seele ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    DOI: 10.36019/9781684481019
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    URL: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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