Mary Astell and John Norris - Letters Concerning the Love of God

Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This is a critical edition of the correspondence between Astell and John Norris of Bemerton! which had a profound significance in 18th-century intellectual and religious circles and which represents a crucial step in the development of Norris and Astell's opposition to John Locke. Zusammenfassung This is a critical edition of the correspondence between Astell and John Norris of Bemerton, which had a profound significance in 18th-century intellectual and religious circles and which represents a crucial step in the development of Norris and Astell's opposition to John Locke. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Melvyn New, New Melvyn, Ms Anne Lake Travitsky Prescott, Ms. Anne Lake Prescott, Ms. Anne Lake Travitsky Prescott, Derek New Taylor, Dr. Betty S. Travitsky
• Assisted by: Melvyn New (Editor), E. Derek Taylor (Editor), Professor E. Derek Taylor (Editor), Taylor E. Derek (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2005
• EAN: 9780754605867
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-0586-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions; The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Philosophy, Nature & existence of God, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine