| Description |
xvi, 331 pages : portraits ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 56 |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 56
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| Contents |
Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft and the paradoxes of feminism -- 1. The female philosopher -- 2. The chimera of womanhood -- 3. For the love of God -- 4. Wollstonecraft and British radicalism -- 5. Perfecting civilisation -- 6. Gallic philosophesses -- 7. Woman versus the policy -- 8. The female citizen -- 9. Jemima and the beginnings of modern feminism -- Epilogue: The fantasy of Mary Wollstonecraft |
| Summary |
"In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In the most in-depth study to date of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft's feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all Wollstonecraft's works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography and index |
| Subject |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Influence.
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Women's rights in literature.
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Feminism and literature.
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Radicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Radicalism in literature.
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Feminism in literature.
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| LC no. |
2003545114 |
| ISBN |
0521661447 hardback |
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0521004179 paperback |
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