The Eloquence of Mary AstellUniversity of Calgary Press, 2005 - 202 sivua The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker and writer during the time of the Enlightenment. Here, author Christine Sutherland explores her importance as a rhetorician, an area that has, until recently, received little attention. Astell was widely known and respected during her own time, but her influence and reputation receded in the years after her death. Her importance as an Enlightenment thinker is becoming more and more recognized, however. As a skilled theorist and practitioner of rhetoric, Astell wrote extensively on education, philosophy, politics, religion, and the status of women. She showed that it was possible for a woman to move from the semi-private form of rhetoric represented by conversation and letters into full public participation in philosophical and political debate. |
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... idea that we see all things in God . Since John Locke was known to be an opponent of the philosophy of John Norris , and the ideas expressed in A Discourse were very similar to those of Locke , Astell assumed that it was he who had ...
... ideas . Her discussion of the difficulty of arriv- ing at conceptions of sufficient clarity involves a consideration of the deficiencies of language itself.3 She shares with other think- ers of her time a dissatisfaction with the ...
... ideas about women's education ( F. Smith 72 , 76 ) . Ruth Perry has shown that Astell's influence on ideas about the education of women persisted throughout the eighteenth century , affecting even such prominent writers as Samuel ...
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The Problem of Ethos | 3 |
Mary Astell and the Problem of Ethos | 25 |
Letters Concerning the Love of God | 41 |
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