id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt nk322b9122k Samara Anne Cahill 'Intelligent Souls': Women, Reason, and Identity in England's 'Long' Eighteenth Century 2009 .txt text/plain 353 15 40 Because the term 'soul' was associated with individual spiritual identity and public religious identity, it enabled women to engage in debates about national concerns while claiming that their duties were not limited to obeying temporal authority. A growing body of scholars has noticed the crucial importance of the concept of the soul (usually conceived as rational, immaterial, and immortal) to literature by Englishwomen writing during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. cache/nk322b9122k.txt txt/nk322b9122k.txt