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A vindication of the rights of men ; A vindication of the rights of woman ; An historical and moral view of the French Revolution / Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited with an introduction and notes by Janet Todd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797, author.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Prose works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Reflections on the revolution in France.
- Burke, Edmund.
- Human rights--Early works to 1800.
- Human rights.
- Liberty--Early works to 1800.
- Liberty.
- Women's rights--Early works to 1800.
- Women's rights.
- Women--Education--Early works to 1800.
- Women.
- Women--Education.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes.
- France.
- History.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (464 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics and between political institutions and the individual. In personal terms, the works show her struggling with a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through rational education, a doctrine that became weaker under the onslaught of her own miserable experience and the revolutionary massacres.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: London: Pickering and Chatto, 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher information.
- Contains:
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Vindication of the rights of woman.
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Historical and moral view of the French Revolution.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780191923128
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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