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A collected volume which addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career.
List of contents
Chronology; Introduction Claudia L. Johnson; 1. Mary Wollstonecraft's letters Janet Todd; 2. Mary Wollstonecraft on education Alan Richardson; 3. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications and their political tradition Chris Jones; 4. Mary Wollstonecraft's French Revolution Tom Furniss; 5. Mary Wollstonecraft's literary reviews Mitzi Myers; 6. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the religious foundations of Mary Wollstonecraft's feminism Barbara Taylor; 7. Mary Wollstonecraft and the literature of advice and instruction Vivien Jones; 8. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the woman writers of her day Anne K. Mellor; 9. Mary Wollstonecraft and the poets Susan J. Wolfson; 10. Mary Wollstonecraft's novels Claudia L. Johnson; 11. The art of travelling in Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Mary A. Favret; 12. Mary Wollstonecraft and the sexuality of genius Andrew Elfenbein; 13. Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies Cora Kaplan.
About the author
Claudia L. Johnson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is author of Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel (1988) and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s (1995), and is currently working on Raising the Novel, which explores the history of novel studies and canon making from the late eighteenth century until the 1950s, and Jane Austen: Cults and Cultures, which examines the history of Austenian reception, representation, and memorialization as well as her place in the formation of various cultural, national, and even sexual identities.
Summary
This collected volume addresses all aspects of Mary Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. It illuminates not only her major work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but also the full range of her writing, and assesses her significance in her own time and since.
