Eve and her daughters in England’s long eighteenth century (Essay Review)
Could there have been an archetype more powerful for the women of early modern England and its colonies than Eve? She was everywhere in discussions of what the first epistle of Peter termed “the weaker vessel” (1 Pet. 3:7), while debates over women’s moral and intellectual capacities tended to be wa...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1374922020-09-23T20:14:45Z Eve and her daughters in England’s long eighteenth century (Essay Review) Stevens, Laura M. School of Humanities DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English Could there have been an archetype more powerful for the women of early modern England and its colonies than Eve? She was everywhere in discussions of what the first epistle of Peter termed “the weaker vessel” (1 Pet. 3:7), while debates over women’s moral and intellectual capacities tended to be waged through discussions of her merits, her flaws, her relationship with Adam, and of course her particular culpability in bringing about humanity’s expulsion from Eden. Published version 2020-03-31T02:23:13Z 2020-03-31T02:23:13Z 2018 Journal Article Stevens, L. M. (2018). Eve and her daughters in England’s long eighteenth century (Essay Review). Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment, 1(1), 1-12. doi:10.32655/srej.2018.1.1 2661-3336 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137492 10.32655/srej.2018.1.1 1 1 1 12 en Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment © 2018 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, & the Brigham Young University Faculty Publishing Service. 12 p. application/pdf |
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Could there have been an archetype more powerful for the women of early modern England and its colonies than Eve? She was everywhere in discussions of what the first epistle of Peter termed “the weaker vessel” (1 Pet. 3:7), while debates over women’s moral and intellectual capacities tended to be waged through discussions of her merits, her flaws, her relationship with Adam, and of course her particular culpability in bringing about humanity’s expulsion from Eden. |
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