Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination

di Barbara Taylor (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2003

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.

• Autore: Barbara Taylor
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Anno: 2003
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 352 p.
• Dimensioni: 232 x 153 mm
• Peso: 550 gr.
• EAN: 9780521004176

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