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Mary Wollstonecraft and the feminist imagination / Barbara Taylor.
Van Pelt Library PR5841.W8 Z799 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 56.
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 56
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
- Feminism and literature--England--History--18th century.
- Feminism and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- England.
- History.
- Women and literature--England--History--18th century.
- Women and literature.
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797--Influence.
- Women's rights in literature.
- Feminism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works, Barbara Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this profoundly influential thinker.
- Contents:
- 1. The female philosopher
- 2. The chimera of womanhood
- 3. For the love of God
- 4. Wollstonecraft and British radicalism
- 5. Perfecting civilisation
- 6. Gallic philosophesses
- 7. Woman versus the polity
- 8. The female citizen
- 9. Jemima and the beginnings of modern feminism
- Epilogue : the fantasy of Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521661447
- 0521004179
- OCLC:
- 51271757
- Online:
- Publisher description
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