10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PASSIONLESSNESS»
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passionlessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
passionlessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Searching the Heart:Women, Men, and Romantic Love in ...
... of their private lives. Queen Victoria's daughters across the Atlantic did not take
her advice to heart, if they heard it at all. Middle-class American women gave no
private indication that they believed in an ideal of female passionlessness ...
2
The Coupling Convention : Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black ...
Because it defined women as moral and spiritual rather than sexual and carnal,
the concept of passionlessness gave middle- and upper-class Anglo-American
women a degree of power over their bodies, their marriages, and their families, ...
Ann duCille Associate Professor of English and African American Studies Wesleyan University,
1993
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Unstable Bodies: Victorian Representations of Sexuality and ...
Passionlessness and prostitution in Ruth Since this novel's publication, critics
have noticed that no sinner was ever more blameless and innocent than
Gaskell's Ruth. Indeed, W. R. Greg felt that in order to justify her long repentance
she ought ...
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Plots and Proposals: American Women's Fiction, 1850-90
Nancy F. Cott, drawing on social prescriptions and medical and religious
authorities, identified a notion of female passionlessness she described as "a
cluster of ideas about the comparative weight of woman's carnal nature and her
moral ...
5
Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: ...
3.40. Passionlessness Thirdly, Augustine advocates a kind of passionlessness (
apatheia) that is in keeping with the general definition of this state offered by the
Stoics. He has sometimes been thought to reject Stoic passionlessness when he
...
Sarah Catherine Byers,
2012
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The Yoga-system of Patañjali: Or, The Ancient Hindu Doctrine ...
passionless with regard to [all] qualities whether perceptible or not- perceptible.
Thus passionlessness is of two kinds. Of these [two], the latter is nothing but an
undisturbed calm of perception [untouched by any objects whatsoever] And at the
...
Passionlessness and Its Offspring The goal shaping this initial stage of ascetic
practice is freedom. One seeks freedom from passions, from deep-rooted psychic
obsessions and compulsions. Evagrius says that ''the ascetic practitioner is one ...
William Harmless Professor of Theology Creighton University,
2007
Passionlessness and Its Offspring The goal shaping this initial stage of ascetic
practice is freedom. One seeks freedom from passions, from deep-rooted psychic
obsessions and compulsions. Evagrius says that ''the ascetic practitioner is one ...
Clement's account of passionlessness (apatheia) is important because it shows
how he modified a Stoic virtue to express Christian claims, indicates the
difficulties as well as the success of his account and influences subsequent
Christian ...
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Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of ...
... Discourse" (Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1997),
pp. 110-16. Notes to Chapter 7 1. As quoted in Nancy F. Cott, "Passionlessness:
An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850," Signs: Journal ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PASSIONLESSNESS»
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passionlessness is used in the context of the following news items.
The Enemy of Youth
... the “last person” (usually mistranslated as “last man”)—the modern European of perfect civility, perfect comfort, and perfect passionlessness. «The New Yorker, Apr 15»
Some Thoughts by Kierkegaard on the Public, the Media, and …
Together with the passionlessness and reflectiveness of the age, the abstraction “the press” (for a newspaper, a periodical, is not a political ... «Patheos, Feb 15»
Cambridge University Press, 2013
... detached, in a ideal state of character, like apatheia (passionlessness). For Roberts, emotions play a variety of important roles in moral life. «Metapsychology, Mar 14»
The Centrality of Marriage in a Cynical Age
When you think of it, even without the modern marital problems of passionlessness and divorce I detailed above, marriage is a really bad deal ... «Huffington Post, Nov 10»
Al Franken Now Beholden To Republican Special Interests
... suggestive 69 — like a couple sleeping back to back with one at the head and one at the foot of the bed — passionlessness, with foot odor. «Wonkette, Jul 09»
Child-Man in the Promised Land
The superficiality, indolence, and passionlessness evoked in Hornby's and Kunkel's novels haven't triggered any kind of cultural transformation ... «City Journal, Jan 08»