Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination Paperback / softback
by Barbara (University of East London) Taylor
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Romanticism series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, 4 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/03/2003
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- ISBN:9780521004176
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, 4 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:13/03/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521004176
