Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

By:

Barbara Taylor

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In the most in-depth study to date of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft's feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker.

Author Biography:

Barbara Taylor is Reader in History in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is a leading intellectual and cultural historian, specialising in the history of feminism, and the author of Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century and numerous articles on Mary Wollstonecraft.

Release date NZ

March 13th, 2003

Author

Barbara Taylor

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

4 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

352

Series

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Dimensions

160x236x27

ISBN-13

9780521661447

Product ID

2161057

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