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Author Weiss, Deborah R., author

Title The female philosopher and her afterlives : Mary Wollstonecraft, the British novel, and the transformations of feminism, 1796-1811 / Deborah Weiss
Published [Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages)
Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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
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Subject Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Philosophy
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Influence
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Wrongs of woman.
Hays, Mary, 1759-1843. Memoirs of Emma Courtney
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849. Belinda
Opie, Amelia, 1769-1853. Adeline Mowbray
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Sense and sensibility.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
SUBJECT Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Hays, Mary) fast
Sense and sensibility (Austen, Jane) fast
Wrongs of woman (Wollstonecraft, Mary) fast
Subject English fiction -- Women authors -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Feminism in literature -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction -- Women authors
Feminism in literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Philosophy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319553634
3319553631