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Book SynopsisThis collected volume addresses all aspects of Mary Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. It illuminates not only her major work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but also the full range of her writing, and assesses her significance in her own time and since.
Trade Review'This is a valuable addition to Wollstonecraft studies, which will also be of interest to scholars of sensibility …'. Susan Manly, Bars Bulletin & Review
'This volume is well put-together, just like the remainder of this collection of volumes that it is a part of …' Revue de la Société d'Etudes anglo-américanes des XVII et XVIIIe siècles
Table of ContentsChronology; Introduction Claudia L. Johnson; 1. Mary Wollstonecraft's letters Janet Todd; 2. Mary Wollstonecraft on education Alan Richardson; 3. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications and their political tradition Chris Jones; 4. Mary Wollstonecraft's French Revolution Tom Furniss; 5. Mary Wollstonecraft's literary reviews Mitzi Myers; 6. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the religious foundations of Mary Wollstonecraft's feminism Barbara Taylor; 7. Mary Wollstonecraft and the literature of advice and instruction Vivien Jones; 8. Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the woman writers of her day Anne K. Mellor; 9. Mary Wollstonecraft and the poets Susan J. Wolfson; 10. Mary Wollstonecraft's novels Claudia L. Johnson; 11. The art of travelling in Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Mary A. Favret; 12. Mary Wollstonecraft and the sexuality of genius Andrew Elfenbein; 13. Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies Cora Kaplan.
