The Cambridge Companion to Mary WollstonecraftOnce viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognized 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. This Companion is the first collected volume to address all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. The diverse and searching essays specially 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 to the full range of her work. A chronology and guides to further reading offer further essential information for scholars and students of this remarkable writer. |
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Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 7 |
Section 3 | 24 |
Section 4 | 59 |
Section 5 | 82 |
Section 6 | 99 |
Section 7 | 119 |
Section 8 | 141 |
Section 9 | 160 |
Section 10 | 189 |
Section 11 | 209 |
Section 12 | 246 |
Section 13 | 271 |
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Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction Patricia Meyer Spacks Limited preview - 2008 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge collections online Cambridge companions to |
| Editor | Claudia L. Johnson |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0521789524, 9780521789523 |
| Length | 284 pages |
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