Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1668-1731-Criticism and interpretation;Astell, 1668-1731-Political and social views;Astell, 1668-1731-Religion;Astell, 1668-1731-Philosophy;Feminism-Great Britain-History 

(SBN) 9780754652649 (hbk.) ;||(GEN) Formerly CIP.||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-214) and index.||(CON) "Dreading to engage her" : the critical reception of Mary Astell / William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson -- Mary Astell, religion, and feminism : texts in motion / Sharon Achinstein -- Mary Astell, A serious proposal to the ladies (1694), and the Anglican reformation of manners in late seventeenth-century England / Hannah Smith -- Astell's "design of friendship" in letters and A serious proposal, part 1 / William Kolbrener -- Mary Astell and John Locke / Mark Goldie -- Mary Astell's law of the heart / Corrinne Harol -- Religious nonconformity and the problem of dissent in the works of Aphra Behn and Mary Astell / Melinda Zook -- "Great in humilitie" : a consideration of Mary Astell's poetry / Claire Pickard -- "Tis better that I endure" : Mary Astell's exclusion of equity / Ann Jessie Van Sant -- Mary Astell on the causation of sensation / Eileen O'Neill -- Astell, Cartesian ethics, and the critique of custom / Jacqueline Broad -- Are you experienced? : Astell, Locke, a[trunc] 

x, 219 p. ; 24 cm. (hbk)