Mary Astell and John Norris: Letters Concerning the Love of God

by New,Melvyn; Taylor,E. Derek

• ISBN13: 9780754605867
• ISBN10: 0754605868
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume presents a critical and annotated edition of the correspondence between Astell and John Norris of Bemerton (16571711), Letters Concerning the Love of God, which was published in three separate editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1695, 1705, 1730). It 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 John Locke's new way of ideas, and Astell's Appendix to the second edition of The Christian Religion, As Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England (1717), a comprehensive attack on Locke's perceived shortcomings as a thinker.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	vi
Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(41)
Works Cited	42	(8)
A Note on the Text	50	(3)
facsimile: Title-page, 1st ed.	53	(1)
facsimile: Title-page, 2nd ed.	54	(1)
Letters Concerning the Love of God	55	(84)
Notes to Letters Concerning the Love of God	139	(120)
Appendices
Appendix One: Emendations to the Text and Historical Collation of Letters Concerning the Love of God	167	(17)
Appendix Two: Cursory Reflections upon a Book call'd, `An Essay concerning Human Understanding' and A Brief Consideration of the Remarques made upon the foregoing Reflections by the Gentlemen of the Athenian Society, in the Supplement to the Third Volume, &c. (Norris)	184	(37)
Notes to Cursory Reflections	206	(15)
Appendix Three: `Appendix', from The Christian Religion, As Profess'd by a Daughter Of The Church of England, 2nd ed. (Astell)	221	(38)
Notes to `Appendix', from The Christian Religion	251	(8)
Index	259