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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
May 2006
Print publication year:
2002
Online ISBN:
9780511998812
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521783437
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature: General Interest, History, English Literature 1700-1830, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognised as a writer of formidable talent across a range of genres, including journalism, letters and travel writing, and is increasingly understood as an heir to eighteenth-century literary and political traditions as well as a forebear of romanticism. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. The diverse and searching essays commissioned for this volume do justice to Wollstonecraft's pivotal importance in her own time and since, paying attention not only to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but also to the full range of her work across disciplinary boundaries separating philosophy, letters, education, advice, politics, history, religion, sexuality, and feminism itself. A chronology and bibliography offer further essential information for scholars and students of this remarkable writer.

Reviews

'This is a valuable addition to Wollstonecraft studies, which will also be of interest to scholars of sensibility …'.

Susan Manly Source: Bars Bulletin & Review

'This volume is well put-together, just like the remainder of this collection of volumes that it is a part of …'

Source: Revue de la Société d'Etudes anglo-américanes des XVII et XVIIIe siècles

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