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Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor

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Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-322) and index

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

51271757

Responsibility statement

Barbara Taylor

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 56

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 this in-depth 2003 study 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 of 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 --, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft and the paradoxes of feminism Part I. Imagining Women: 1. The female philosopher 2. The chimera of womanhood 3. For the love of God Part II. Feminism and Revolution: 4. Wollstonecraft and British radicalism 5. Perfecting civilization 6. Gallic philosophesses 7. Women vs. the polity 8. The female citizen 9. Jemima and the beginnings of modern feminism Epilogue: the fantasy of Mary Wollstonecraft Bibliography

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