Women's Utopias of the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780252028410
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Women's studies; c 1700 to c 1800; Feminism; Sociology Of Women; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Sociology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; European - General; Women Authors; History / Europe / Western; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - General; 18th century; History; Utopias; Women
First sentence: This passage reveals Mary Astell in the manner of a metaphysical poet, bringing together ideas of a soul's heavenly and earthly attachments through a surprising scientific conceit, the figure of charge pins, compass needles, or perhaps magnetized iron filings clinging to each other.