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Zusatztext 'This volume is not only the most comprehensive collection of Wollstonecraft scholarship to have appeared to date. One of its primary strengths lies in its reflection of Wollstonecraft's diversity as a writer. As Jane Moore observes in her impressive introduction! taken together! Rights of Men and the more famous Rights of Woman have widened Wollstonecraft's appeal beyond any single academic discipline or school of thought! and this is borne out in the range of critical material on offer here. Important though her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is! it illustrates but one facet of Wollstonecraft's political philosophy and social concerns.' TLS Informationen zum Autor Jane Moore is a Reader in the School of English! Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University! UK A collection of essays that represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft. It demonstrates Wollstonecraft's importance in contemporary social, political and sexual theory and in Romantic studies. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays that represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft. It demonstrates Wollstonecraft's importance in contemporary social, political and sexual theory and in Romantic studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Part I Survey of the Work and Reputation: Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft! George Eliot; Mary Wollstonecraft! her tragic life and her passionate struggle for freedom! Emma Goldman; Mary Wollstonecraft! Virginia Woolf; On the reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman! Regina M. Janes; Mary Wollstonecraft: texts and contexts! Gary Kelly; Remembering Mary Wollstonecraft on the bicentenary of the publication of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman! Sylvana Tomaselli. Part II Contexts: History! Politics! Culture: Wollstonecraft and Social! Philosophical and Political Theory: Mary Wollstonecraft: 18th-century commonwealthwoman! G.J. Barker-Benfield; Wollstonecraft! feminism! and democracy: 'being Bastilled'! Virginia Sapiro; Mary Wollstonecraft and the 'reserve of reason'! Simon Swift; Wollstonecraft! Gender and Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment desire! Janet Todd; The Enlightenment debate on women! Sylvana Tomaselli; Wollstonecraft Education and Conduct Literature: Her demands for the education of woman! Emma Rauschenbush-Clough; Mary! Mary! quite contrary! or! Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft compared! Regina M. Janes; Advice and enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft and sex education! Vivien Jones; Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution: Gender in revolution: Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft! Tom Furniss; 'The grand causes which combine to carry mankind forward': Wollstonecraft! history and revolution! Jane Rendall; Wollstonecraft and Religion: Sibylline apocalyptics: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Job's mother's womb! Mary Wilson Carpenter; For the love of God: religion and the erotic imagination in Wollstonecraft's feminism! Barbara Taylor; Wollstonecraft and Romanticism: Godwin's Memoirs of Wollstonecraft: the shaping of self and subject! Mitzi Myers; Death in the face of nature: self! society and body in Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden! N ...
