The Resource Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor
Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor
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- 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 --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 331 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780521004176
- Label
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination
- Title
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination
- Statement of responsibility
- Barbara Taylor
- Language
- 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-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Taylor, Barbara
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism
- Series volume
- 56
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Feminism and literature
- Women and literature
- Women's rights in literature
- Feminism in literature
- Label
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-322) and index
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- rdacarrier.
- Content category
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- 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
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)51271757
- Label
- Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination, Barbara Taylor
- 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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