The Vindications: "Vindication of the Rights of Men", "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (Broadview Literary Texts): The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman - Softcover

Mary Wollstonecraft

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551110881 ISBN 13: 9781551110882

Publisher: Broadview Press, 1997

Synopsis

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for girls, and included two novels. But her reputation is founded on A Vindication of the Rights of Woman of 1792. This treatise is the first great document of feminism—and is now accepted as a core text in western tradition.

It is not widely known that the germ of Wollstonecraft’s great work came out of an earlier and much shorter vindication—A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), written in the context of the issues raised by the French Revolution. This edition, which follows the model of other Broadview Editions in including a range of materials that help the reader to see the work in the context of its era out of which it emerged, is arranged chronologically, opening with Wollstonecraft’s “other vindication.” It also includes a wide range of other documents in appendices, as well as a comprehensive and authoritative introduction, chronology, and full index.

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About the Author

The late D.L. Macdonald was Professor of English at the University of Calgary and was also the author of Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of The Vampyre.

Kathleen Scherf, Associate Dean of Arts at the University of New Brunswick, is also the editor of The Collected Poems of Malcolm Lowry.

From the Back Cover

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for girls, and included two novels. But her reputation is founded on A Vindication of the Rights of Woman of 1792. This treatise is the first great document of feminism--and is now accepted as a core text in western tradition.

It is not widely known that the germ of Wollstonecraft's great work came out of an earlier and much shorter vindication--A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), written in the context of the issues raised by the French Revolution. This edition, which follows the model of other Broadview Editions in including a range of materials that help the reader to see the work in the context of its era out of which it emerged, is arranged chronologically, opening with Wollstonecraft's "other vindication." It also includes a wide range of other documents in appendices, as well as a comprehensive and authoritative introduction, chronology, and full index.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551110881
• ISBN 13: 9781551110882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 488