Mary Wollstonecraft - A Very Short Introduction

This Very Short Introduction will examine the conditions for Mary Wollstonecraft's formation as a feminist, and will go on to look at Wollstonecraft as an educator, a political thinker, and a romantic.

List of contents

• 1: First of a New Genus


• 2: The Making of a Feminist


• 3: Educator


• 4: Political Thinker


• 5: Romantic


• 6: Reintroducing Mary Wollstonecraft


• Timeline of Wollstonecraft's Life and Works

About the author

E.J. Clery is Professor of English Literature at Uppsala University, and the author of five monographs, including Women's Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley. Her recent publications include a critical biography Jane Austen: the Banker's Sister and Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis.

Summary

This Very Short Introduction will examine the conditions for Mary Wollstonecraft's formation as a feminist, and will go on to look at Wollstonecraft as an educator, a political thinker, and a romantic.

Product details

• Authors: E. J. Clery, E. J. (Professor in the Department of Engli Clery, E. J. (Professor of English Literature At U Clery, Clery E. J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.03.2025
• EAN: 9780192862563
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286256-3
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Popular philosophy, Literary studies: general, Literary essays, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800