Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination

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Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination

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Barbara Taylor

Creator

• Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11-

Subject

• Feminism in literature
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 -- Influence
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Women's rights in literature
• Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century

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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• Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 56

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Series volume

56