Description
"Backgrounds and Contexts" is also significantly expanded and contains twenty-four works organized thematically into these groupings: "Legacies of English Radicalism," "Education," "Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Moment," and "The Wollstonecraft Debate." Opinions on a variety of reforms that may be compared and contrasted with Wollstonecraft's include those by John Milton, John Locke, Mary Astell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah More, Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Maria Edgeworth, and William Godwin, among others.
"Criticism" includes six seminal essays on A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Elissa S. Guralnick, Mitzi Myers, Cora Kaplan, Mary Poovey, Claudia L. Johnson, and Barbara Taylor.
A Chronology of Wollstonecraft's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
About the Author
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) first achieved fame for her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she extended the radical idea of the "rights of man" to women and laid the groundwork for modern feminism. Deidre Shauna Lynch (Ph.D. Stanford), The Romantic Period, is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University. Her books include Loving Literature: A Cultural History, the prize-winning The Economy of Character, and (as co-editor) Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees and Cultural Institutions of the Novel. She has edited Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Persuasion and the Norton Critical Edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has won multiple teaching awards.
Book Information
ISBN 9780393929744
Author Mary Wollstonecraft
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 393g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 130mm * 23mm
