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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 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"--

English literature --- Women in literature. --- Soul in literature. --- Orientalism in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Litterature anglaise --- Âme --- Orientalisme (litterature) --- Orientbild --- Frauenliteratur --- English literature. --- Femmes dans la litterature. --- Âme dans la litterature. --- Orientalisme dans la litterature. --- Écrits de femmes anglais --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Women's writings, English --- Themes, motifs. --- Dans la litterature. --- Women authors. --- Histoire et critique. --- Female authors --- Zielke-Nadkarni, Andrea --- Women as literary characters --- Feminismus --- Feministische Literatur --- Frauendichtung --- Frau --- Literatur --- Bild --- Orient --- Motiv --- Littérature orientaliste --- Orient littéraire --- Orientalisme --- Orientalisme en littérature --- Orientalisme littéraire --- Littérature --- Âme (philosophie) --- Âme --- Contribution au concept d'âme --- Pneûma --- Psuché --- Psukhê --- Psyché --- Souffle --- Âme du monde --- Corps --- Esprit --- Intellect --- Intériorité --- Psychisme --- Réminiscence --- Immortalité --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie de l'homme --- Dans la littérature --- Esthétique --- Philosophie --- religion --- Nouvel âge --- philosophie --- Hövener, Andreas --- 2013

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Volume 26 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era travels beyond the usual discussions of power, identity, and cultural production to visit the purlieus and provinces of Britain’s literary empire. Bulging at its bindings are essays investigating out-of-the-way but influential ensembles, whether female religious enthusiasts, annotators of Maria Edgeworth’s underappreciated works, or modern video-based Islamic super-heroines energized by Mary Wollstonecraft’s irreverance. The global impact of the local is celebrated in studies of the personal pronoun in Samuel Johnson’s political writings and of the outsize role of a difficult old codger in catalyzing the literary career of Charlotte Smith. Headlining a volume that peers into minute details in order to see the outer limits of Enlightenment culture is a special feature on metaphor in long-eighteenth-century poetry and criticism. Five interdisciplinary essays investigate the deep Enlightenment origins of a trope usually associated with the rise of Romanticism. Volume 26 culminates in a rich review section containing fourteen responses to current books on Enlightenment religion, science, literature, philosophy, political science, music, history, and art. About the annual journal 1650-1850 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines: literature (both in English and other languages), philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences—between the “hard” and the “humane” disciplines. The editors encourage proposals for special features that bring together five to seven essays on focused themes within its historical range, from the Interregnum to the end of the first generation of Romantic writers. While also being open to more specialized or particular studies that match up with the general themes and goals of the journal, 1650-1850 is in the first instance a journal about the artful presentation of ideas that welcomes good writing from its contributors. ISSN 1065-3112. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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