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The writings of the High Church Tory pamphleteer Mary Astell
(1666-1731) are a remarkable and underestimated contribution to the
constitutional debates which ushered in the modern liberal
democratic state. An interlocutor with Swift and Defoe, Astell was
perhaps the first systematic critic of Locke's writings, something
which has been overlooked in the considerable literature evaluating
the reception of Locke's Two Treatises on Government. Astell's
political pamphlets Reflections upon Marriage, A Fair Way with
Dissenters, and An Impartial Enquiry into the Origins of Rebellion
ran to five editions in her lifetime, but have never been reprinted
in their entirety. This new edition makes accessible the major
works of a fine English stylist and important political theorist.
Throughout her life, in her personal relationships as well as in
her role as a public intellectual, the English thinker Mary Astell
(1666-1731) supported women, wrote to and for women, and, to the
greatest extent possible, moved from advocacy to action on their
behalf. In Some Reflections upon Marriage (London, 1700), Astell
focused her attention on the institution of marriage. For Astell,
marriage is a divinely ordained state, a "Christian institution,"
the only way to perpetuate humankind. But, she asks, "if marriage
be such a blessed state, how comes it . . . there are so few happy
marriages?" When her analysis is complete, there is not much to
recommend the institution, at least from a woman's perspective.
Marriage is necessary since it represents "the only honorable way
of continuing mankind." But, as Astell observes, the woman who
marries "ought to lay it down for an indisputable maxim that her
husband must govern absolutely and entirely and that she has
nothing else to do but to please and obey." Her radical conclusion?
If she cannot accept marriage "as it truly is," then a woman might
choose not to marry: perhaps, Astell suggests, "it is not good for
a woman to marry." Despite the importance of Some Reflections upon
Marriage, no previous edition has addressed the complications of
Astell's prose style, and none has added the kind of glossing and
notes that will assist student readers in their engagement with her
distinctive voice. This edition, designed for classroom use,
provides an ample introduction, a carefully modernized text,
helpful glosses and notes, and a useful bibliography with
references for further reading.
Throughout her life, in her personal relationships as well as in
her role as a public intellectual, the English thinker Mary Astell
(1666-1731) supported women, wrote to and for women, and, to the
greatest extent possible, moved from advocacy for to action on
behalf of women. In her first published work, A Serious Proposal to
the Ladies (London 1694), Astell proposed the establishment of an
educational institution for women aimed solely at fulfilling their
needs, a place where women could withdraw from a harsh and
threatening world controlled by men and organized to suit men's
desires, irrespective of women's. Perhaps nowhere is her feminist
position more clearly articulated than on the title page of this,
her first publication: she addresses herself to women, her aim is
"the advancement of their true and greatest interest," and she
identifies herself as "a lover of her sex." But, despite its
importance, no previously available edition of A Serious Proposal
to the Ladies has addressed the complications of Astell's prose
style, and none has added the kind of glossing and notes that will
assist student readers in their engagement with her distinctive
voice. This edition, designed for classroom use, provides an ample
introduction, a carefully modernized text, helpful glosses and
notes, and a useful bibliography with references for further
reading.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++John Rylands University Library of ManchesterT155582Anonymous.
By Mary Astell. First published, in 1700, as 'Some reflections upon
marriage occasioned by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's case'.
With two final advertisement leaves.London: printed for William
Parker, 1730. 8],180, 4]p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++Harvard University Houghton LibraryN023908Anonymous. By Mary
Astell. First published in 1700 as 'Some reflections upon marriage
occasioned by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's case'.London:
printed for R. Wilkin, 1703. 6],98p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT150007Text continuous
despite pagination. Anonymous. By Mary Astell. First published, in
1700, as 'Some reflections upon marriage occasioned by the Duke and
Dutchess of Mazarine's case'.London: printed for R. Wilkin, 1706.
28],80,83-93p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++British LibraryT067471Anonymous. By
Mary Astell. Issued first in 1709, as 'Bart'lemy fair'.London:
printed for John Bateman, 1722. 6],175, 1]p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of
Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical
understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking.
Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel
Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and
moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade.
The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and
Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a
debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT053322Mr. Wotton = Mary Astell. In answer to
Lord Shaftesbury's 'Letter concerning enthusiasm'. Published in
1722 under the title: 'An enquiry after wit'.London: printed for R.
Wilkin, 1709. 175, 1]p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it
was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the
first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and
farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists
and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original
texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly
contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++<sourceLibrary>Cambridge
University Library<ESTCID>T155583<Notes>Anonymous. By
Mary Astell. First published, in 1700, as 'Some reflections upon
marriage occasioned by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's
case'.<imprintFull>Dublin: printed by and for S. Hyde and E.
Dobson, and for R. Gunne and R. Owen, 1730. <collation>
4],79, 1]p.; 12
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