The Eloquence of Mary Astell
Christine Mason Sutherland (Author), Cantook Station (Distributor)
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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9781552384596, 9781552386613, 9781552381533, 9781280946561, 9781429411615, 1552384594, 1552386619, 1552381536, 1280946563, 1429411619
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AcknowledgementsIntroudctionPart I: Mary Astell's Context1. The Problem of Ethos2. Mary Astell and the Problem of EthosPart II: Mary Astell's Rhetorical Practice3. Letters Concerning the Love of God4. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part I5. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Part II6. Some Reflections Upon Marriage7. The Christian Religion8. Political PamphletsPart III: Mary Astell's Rhetorical Theory8. Rhetorical Theory I9. Rhetorical Theory IIConclusionsAppendix AAppendix BBibliographyNotesIndex
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