1st Edition
Mary Astell and John Norris Letters Concerning the Love of God
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Given the progress made in recent years in recovering the writings of early modern women, one might expect that a complete set of the important works of Mary Astell (1666-1731) would have been reissued long before now. Instead, only portions of the thought of the 'First English Feminist' have reached a wide academic audience. This volume presents a critical and annotated edition of the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Works cited; A note on the text; Letters Concerning the Love of God; Notes to Letters Concerning the Love of God; Appendices; Index.
Biography
E. Derek Taylor is an Assistant Professor of English at Longwood University. He has published several essays on Norris and Astell and is nearing completion on two related projects. Melvyn New has been a Professor of English at the University of Florida for more than thirty-five years and is the General Editor of the University Press of Florida edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, six volumes of which are now in print.
'Copiously annotated, with a lengthy list of emendations, these three texts offer a valuable guide to religious theories that have faded from contemporary prominence... This edition of Letters is insightful and valuable. In these editors' able hands, neither Letters nor its authors is allowed to remain static or isolated.' The Sciblerian ’...a welcome addition to the scholarly reprints of Early Modern women’s writing and philosophy, one that provides an impetus for the revision of twenty-first-century understandings of the work of Norris, Astell, Early Modern philosophy and intellectual and cultural history more broadly.’ Parergon
