Mary Astell

Contents: 'Dreading to engage her': the critical reception of Mary Astell, William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson Mary Astell, religion, and feminism: texts in motion, Sharon Achinstein Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694), and the Anglican reformation of manners in late 17th-century England, Hannah Smith Astell's 'Design of Friendship' in Letters and A Serious Proposal, Part I, William Kolbrener Mary Astell and John Locke, Mark Goldie Mary Astell's law of the heart, Corrinne Harol Religious nonconformity and the problem of dissent in the works of Aphra Behn and Mary Astell, Melinda Zook 'Great in Humilitie': a consideration of Mary Astell's poetry, Claire Pickard 'Tis better that I endure': Mary Astell's exclusion of equity, Ann Jessie Van Sant Mary Astell on the causation of sensation, Eileen O'Neill Astell, Cartesian ethics, and the critique of custom, Jacqueline Broad Are you experienced?: Astell, Locke, and education, E. Derek Taylor 'Cry up liberty': the political context for Mary Astell's feminism, Hilda L. Smith Select bibliographies Index

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