Mary Wollstonecraft and political economy : the feminist critique of commercial modernity / Catherine Packham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Packham, Catherine, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797--Criticism and interpretation.

Wollstonecraft, Mary.

Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860.

Great Britain.

Feminist economics--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Feminist economics.

Physical Description:

xi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of commercial modernity. Through her major works, Wollstonecraft emerges as both political and economic radical, anticipating later Romantics. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details"-- Provided by publisher.

"Why was Wollstonecraft's landmark feminist work, the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, categorised as a work of political economy when it was first published? Taking this question as a starting point, Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy gives a compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of the material, moral, social, and psychological conditions of commercial modernity. Offering thorough analysis of Wollstonecraft's major writings - including her two Vindications, her novels, her history of the French Revolution, and her travel writing - this is the only book-length study to situate Wollstonecraft in the context of the political economic thought of her time. It shows Wollstonecraft as an economic as much as a political radical, whose critique of the emerging economic orthodoxies of her time anticipates later Romantic thinkers." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft and eighteenth-century political economy

Political economy and commercial society in the 1790s

The engagement with Burke : contesting the 'natural course of things'

Property, passions and manners : political economy and the Vindications

Political economy in revolution : France, free commerce and Wollstonecraft's History of the French Revolution

Property in political economy : modernity, individuation, and literary form

Credit and credulity : political economy, gender, and the sentiments in The wrongs of woman

Conclusion: Imagination, futurity, and the value of things.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-276) and index.

ISBN:

9781009395847

100939584X

OCLC:

1396059103