The Vindication of the Rights - Couverture souple

Wollestonecraft, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192836528 ISBN 13 : 9780192836526

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics and between political institutions and the individual. In personal terms, the works show her struggling with a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through rational education, a doctrine that became weaker under the onslaught of her own miserable experience and the revolutionary massacres. Janet Todd's introduction illuminates the progress of Wollstonecraft's thought, showing that a reading of all three works allows her to emerge as a more substantial political writer than a study of The Rights of Woman alone can reveal.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Mary Wollstonecraft is generally recognized as one of the most influential figures in the early feminist movement. This volume contains two of her political writings, "A Vindication of the Rights of Men" (1790) and "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792).

Revue de presse

... this edition does away with the idea of M. W. as Tom Paine in Skirts. Her mind is deepter and richer than his; her transmutation of the turmoil of her experiences during the revolutionary period in France is remarkable. (The Observer)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192836528
• ISBN 13: 9780192836526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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