Format:
XVI, 331 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ., reprint.
ISBN:
0521004179
,
0521661447
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism 56
Content:
"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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Wollstonecraft, Mary 1759-1797
;
Feminismus
URL:
Publisher description
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9075
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