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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.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Political writings
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes.
- France.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Reflections on the revolution in France.
- Burke, Edmund.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (463 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790's. 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Texts; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Mary Wollstonecraft; A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MEN; A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN; AN HISTORICAL AND MORAL VIEW OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; Explanatory Notes
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: London: Pickering and Chatto, 1993.
- Description based on publisher information.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxii-xxiv).
- Contains:
- Vindication of the rights of woman.
- Historical and moral view of the French Revolution.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160578-6
- 0-19-192312-5
- 1-280-68005-9
- 9786613656988
- 0-19-159261-7
- OCLC:
- 714569754
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