A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Man - Softcover

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192836528 ISBN 13: 9780192836526

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 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.

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About the Author

Janet Todd is Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192836528
• ISBN 13: 9780192836526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Todd Janet