Description |
1 online resource (291 pages) |
Series |
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print |
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Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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Contents |
Introduction: The Female Philosopher -- 1. Mansions of Despair: The Wrongs of Woman and the Commonality of Experience -- 2. Passions of the Mind: The Moral Martyrdom of Emma Courtney -- 3. More of a Philosopher: Adeline Mowbray and "Every-Day Nature" -- 4. Intellectual Rules: The Extraordinary Ordinary Belinda -- 5. Empirical Ethics: Sense and Sensibility and Female Philosophy -- Conclusion: The Fate of the Female Philosopher: Polwhele, More, Byron, and Beyond -- Index |
Summary |
This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate lives and afterlives for the female philosopher, women authors of the early Romantic period used the resources of the novel to evaluate Wollstonecraft's ideas and legacy. This book examines how these writers' opinions converged on such issues as progress, education, and ungendered virtues, and how they diverged on a fundamental question connected to Wollstonecraft's life and feminist thought: whether the enlightened, intellectual woman should live according to her own principles, or sacrifice moral autonomy in the interest of pragmatic accommodation to societal expectations |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Philosophy
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Influence
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Wrongs of woman.
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Hays, Mary, 1759-1843. Memoirs of Emma Courtney
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Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849. Belinda
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Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853. Adeline Mowbray
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Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Sense and sensibility.
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 |
SUBJECT |
Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Hays, Mary) fast |
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Sense and sensibility (Austen, Jane) fast |
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Wrongs of woman (Wollstonecraft, Mary) fast |
Subject |
English fiction -- Women authors -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Feminism in literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction -- Women authors
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Feminism in literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Philosophy
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783319553634 |
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3319553631 |
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