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

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019955546X ISBN 13: 9780199555468

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2009

Synopsis

This volume brings together extracts of 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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Janet Todd is Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019955546X
• ISBN 13: 9780199555468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Todd Janet