| Description |
vii, 249 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Gender, Class and Cultural Revolution -- 2. Self, Social Conflict and Writing -- 3. 'The First of a New Genus' -- 4. From the Rights of Men to Revolutionary Feminism -- 5. 'A Revolution in Female Manners' -- 6. From Revolutionary Feminism to Revolutionary Paris -- 7. 'A Solitary Wanderer' -- 8. Love, Marriage and the Wrongs of Woman |
| Summary |
Revolutionary feminism grew out of the cultural revolution that founded the modern state in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. That cultural revolution responded to the revolution in France, and at the center of both revolutions was the question of the rights and duties of women. Mary Wollstonecraft's mind and career were shaped in response to these revolutions, leading her to formulate a feminism for her time--revolutionary feminism. This book describes the growth of Wollstonecraft's mind and career, and examines all her writings as experiments in revolutionizing writing in terms of her revolutionary feminism |
| Analysis |
England |
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Feminism |
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Feminism Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 |
| Notes |
"Reprinted with minor alterations 1996" --t.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index |
| Subject |
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Feminists -- England -- Biography.
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Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Revolutionary literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Authors, English -- 18th century -- Biography.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Feminism.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
91031863 |
| ISBN |
0312072554 |
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0333511026 |
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0333641353 (paperback) |
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