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The Eloquence of Mary Astell

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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. 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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305.420 92 SUT e

Publisher

: ., 2005

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-55238-661-3

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305.420 92

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Astell, Mary, 1668-1731—Literary art

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Christine Mason Sutherland

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maya

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