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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... wou'd lie on Men's hands , how empty would the Place of Concourse be , and how silent most Companies did Men forbear to Censure their Governors , that is , in effect , to think themselves Wiser . Indeed Government wou'd be much more ...
... wou'd not be allow'd of here . For whatever may be said against Passive- Obedience in another case , I suppose there's no Man but likes it very well in this ; how much soever Arbitrary Power may be dislik'd on a Throne , not Milton ...
... wou'd be most Improper ; so that if we venture to Act on the former Judgment , we may easily do amiss , if we wou'd Act as we ought , we must view its New Face , and see with what Aspect that looks on us . ( 127 ) This is a particularly ...
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Mary Astell and the Problem of Ethos | 25 |
Letters Concerning the Love of God | 41 |
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