Search results: “"Mary Astell"”
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A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies is one of the most important and neglected works advocating the establishment of women’s academies. Its reception…
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Early Modern Philosophy
This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemology, but also new themes…
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Euphemia
Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia, published in 1790 at the end of her professional career, is an extraordinary account of pre-Revolutionary America from a woman’s perspective. Constructed…
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Evil, Suffering, and Pessimism
Is it possible to explain the existence of evil under the supposition of a supremely good creator? Are we ourselves the cause of most of…
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Roxana
Almost three hundred years after its first publication, Roxana continues to challenge readers, who, though compelled by Roxana’s story, are often baffled by her complex…
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The Basset Table
The Basset Table follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to…
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature Volume 3: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century – Second Edition
Guided by the latest scholarship, The Broadview Anthology of British Literature is acclaimed for its breadth and its deep attention to literature’s historical and cultural…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought – Volume 1: From Plato to Nietzsche
This comprehensive volume contains much of the important work in political and social philosophy from ancient times until the end of the nineteenth century. The…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: From Machiavelli to Nietzsche
This volume contains many of the most important texts in western political and social thought from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth century.…
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The Noble Slaves
This is the first ever critical edition of Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves, a novel that shows women as both moral exemplars and independent adventurers…