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
correspondence between Astell and John Norris of Bemerton
(1657-1711), Letters Concerning the Love of God, which was
published in three separate editions during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries (1695, 1705, 1730). This work had profound
significance in eighteenth-century intellectual and religious
circles, and represents a crucial step in the development of Norris
and Astell's philosophical and theological opposition to that most
prominent of Enlightenment figures, John Locke. Letters Concerning
the Love of God includes, as contextual material, Norris's Cursory
Reflections upon a Book Call'd, An Essay Concerning Human
Understanding (1690), the first published philosophical response to
(as Bishop Stillingfleet would later put it) Locke's 'new way of
ideas,' and Astell's biting and comprehensive attack on Locke in
the 'Appendix' to the second edition of The Christian Religion, As
Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (1717). These
texts serve to place both Letters and its authors in the
contentious philosophical-theological climate to which they
belonged, one wherein, most significantly, Locke's present-day
preeminence had yet to be realized. The editors' extensive
introduction and annotations to this volume not only provide
background on the historical and biographical elements, but also
elucidate philosophical and theological concepts that are perhaps
unfamiliar to modern readers.
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