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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT AND THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION
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| By: |
Barbara Taylor |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£106.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521661447 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521661447 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
13 March, 2003 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism No.56 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works, this 2003 book provides a compelling portrait of this profoundly influential thinker. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
4 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |