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The Resource Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor

Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor

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Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination
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Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination
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Barbara Taylor
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eng
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 --
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1950 April 11-
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Taylor, Barbara
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illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Cambridge studies in Romanticism
Series volume
56
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  • Wollstonecraft, Mary
  • Wollstonecraft, Mary
  • Feminism and literature
  • Women and literature
  • Women's rights in literature
  • Feminism in literature
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Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-322) and index
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  • nc
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent.
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
Control code
FIEb17527454
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xvi, 331 pages
Isbn
9780521004176
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)51271757
Label
Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-322) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
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
Control code
FIEb17527454
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
xvi, 331 pages
Isbn
9780521004176
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)51271757

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