The Female Philosopher And Her Afterlives: Mary Wollstonecraft, The British Novel, And The Transformations Of Feminism, 1796-1811 (palgrave Studies In ... Romanticism And Cultures Of Print)
by Deborah Weiss /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure
brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s
This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure
brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’sA Vindication
of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of
feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to
the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate
lives and afterlives for the female philosopher, women authors of
the early Romantic period used the resources of the novel to
evaluate Wollstonecraft’s ideas and legacy. This book examines
how these writers’ opinions converged on such issues as progress,
education, and ungendered virtues, and how they diverged on a
fundamental question connected to Wollstonecraft’s life and
feminist thought: whether the enlightened, intellectual
woman should live according to her own principles, or sacrifice
moral autonomy in the interest of pragmatic accommodation to
societal expectations.
, embodied the transformations of
feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to
the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate
lives and afterlives for the female philosopher, women authors of
the early Romantic period used the resources of the novel to
evaluate Wollstonecraft’s ideas and legacy. This book examines
how these writers’ opinions converged on such issues as progress,
education, and ungendered virtues, and how they diverged on a
fundamental question connected to Wollstonecraft’s life and
feminist thought: whether the enlightened, intellectual
woman should live according to her own principles, or sacrifice
moral autonomy in the interest of pragmatic accommodation to
societal expectations.
