UID:
almahu_9949546445202882
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
ISBN:
9781399503112
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9783110993899
Series Statement:
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism : ECSR
Content:
Redefines Mary Wollstonecraft as a multi-lingual cosmopolitanDefines Wollstonecraft as a cosmopolitan thinkerExamines her engagement with European writersAnalyses her translations as creative rewritings of their source textsConsidering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, Felicité de Genlis, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann and Margareta de Cambon, as well as British sentimental philosophers and the radical theologian Richard Price, this book argues that Wollstonecraft espouses a cosmopolitan ethic that subordinates local and national allegiances to philanthropy, or love of humankind. At a time of international conflict, burgeoning capitalism and colonial enterprise, she represents philanthropy and cultural authenticity as the means to resist tyranny and imperialism in all their forms and light the way to global justice.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction --
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1. 'The Most Sublime Virtues': Wollstonecraft's Philanthropic Personae --
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2. 'Original Spirit': Translating the Maternal Educator --
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3. 'Affection for the Whole Human Race': Wollstonecraft's Cosmopolitan Love of Country --
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4. 'A More Enlightened Moral Love of Mankind': Philanthropy and the French Revolution --
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5. 'Gleams of Truth': Transparency, Eloquence and the Language of Revolution --
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6. 'Imperious Sympathies': Wollstonecraft's Philanthropic Traveller --
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7. 'The Growth of Each Particular Soil': Authenticity and Diversity in Wollstonecraft's Narrative of Progress --
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Coda. 'Out-Laws of the World': Cosmopolitanism in The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110780390
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781399503112
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399503112
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781399503112
