Wolfson On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The First of a New Genus
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55638-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Core Knowledge

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women’s equality. Drawing on extensive experience teaching and writing about Wollstonecraft, Susan J. Wolfson provides fresh perspectives both for first-time readers and those seeking a nuanced appreciation of her achievements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolfson, Susan J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
My Texts, Abbreviations, and Short Titles
Prologue: Why Mary Wollstonecraft? Why A Vindication?
1. How Mary Wollstonecraft Became “the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman”
2. Picturing Mary Wollstonecraft: The Right Woman
3. “An Amazon stept out”: A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
4. “revolution in female manners”: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)
5. Dystopian Nightmare: Paris, December 26, 1792
6. “bastilled. for life”: The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria; a Fragment (1798)
Epilogue: “we hear her voice”
Brief Glossary of Recurring Names
Notes
Further Reading and Bibliographies
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. An expert on the British Romantic era, she is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Wolfson’s recent books include A Greeting of the Spirit (2022), Romantic Shades and Shadows (2018), and Reading John Keats (2015), as well as annotated editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2012) and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (2014).