UID:
almahu_9948247367002882
Format:
1 online resource (xxxiii, 358 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108261067 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Literature in Context
Content:
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought, historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2020).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781108416993
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108261067
URL:
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