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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Astell; Patricia Springborg |
ISBN: | 1851962689 9781851962686 |
OCLC Number: | 929641282 |
Description: | LII, 204 p., [1] c. di tav. ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Note on the text; Introduction; Select Bibliography; A Serious Proposal: Part 1 London 1694; Part 2 London 1697 |
Responsibility: | Mary Astell ; edited with introduction and notes by Patricia Springborg. |
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'...Patricia Springborg's edition of Mary Astell's influential A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) is single-minded in its pursuit of intertextual rather than contextual insight, offering a lucid introduction and informative footnotes directed towards the exposition of Astell's increasingly sophisticated critique of John Locke... Springborg's analysis produces a useful gloss on Astell's understanding of freedom, succeeding in reconciling her apparent conservatism (her commitment to High Church and Tory principles of sovereign authority) with her radical critique of women's exclusion from the discourses of Enlightenment rationalism' -Ros Ballaster, Eighteenth Century Fiction Read more...

