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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

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Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination Synopsis

In the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In this in-depth 2003 study of Wollstonecraft's thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain's radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft's feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker.

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ISBN: 9780521661447
Publication date: 13th March 2003
Author: Barbara (University of East London) Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 352 pages
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000