The Beautiful Soul in the Confessional: Crafting the Moral Self in Friederike Helene Unger's Confessions of a Beautiful Soul written by Herself

This article examines how Unger’s Confessions of a Beautiful Soul written by Herself creates a new model of moral acquisition. This model finds its place between religious morality and moral performance, calling for the novel’s protagonist, Mirabella, to cultivate a moral self through the spiritual...

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Main Author: Michelle A. Reyes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aphra Behn Society 2014-09-01
Series:ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts 1640-1830
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol4/iss2/1