The Female Philosopher And Her Afterlives
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Author | : Deborah Weiss |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2017-11-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319553631 |
This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate lives and afterlives for the female philosopher, women authors of the early Romantic period used the resources of the novel to evaluate Wollstonecraft’s ideas and legacy. This book examines how these writers’ opinions converged on such issues as progress, education, and ungendered virtues, and how they diverged on a fundamental question connected to Wollstonecraft’s life and feminist thought: whether the enlightened, intellectual woman should live according to her own principles, or sacrifice moral autonomy in the interest of pragmatic accommodation to societal expectations.
Author | : M. Bigold |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2013-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137033576 |
Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.
Author | : Andrew McInnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9781138696334 |
Female domination: Mothers, daughters and philosophy in Shelley's Lodore and Gore's Mrs Armytage -- 5. Afterword: The afterlives of the female philosopher -- Bibliography -- Index
Author | : Ann R. Hawkins |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2022-12-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317041747 |
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.
Author | : Brett A. Geier |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 1961 |
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ISBN | : 3031251342 |
Author | : Michael Falk |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 300 |
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ISBN | : 303149959X |
Author | : Catherine Packham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2024-02-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 100939584X |
A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as incisive critic of the material, moral, and psychological conditions of commercial modernity.
Author | : Penelope J. Corfield |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2022-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300253575 |
A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world's first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain's role in the international trade in enslaved Africans. But how were these changes perceived by people at the time? And how do their viewpoints compare with attitudes today? In this wide-ranging history, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life--politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and science, industry and towns. People's responses at the time were often divided. Pessimists saw loss and decline, while optimists saw improvements and light. Out of such tensions came the Georgian culture of both experiment and resistance. Corfield emphasizes those elements of deep continuity that persisted even within major changes, and shows how new developments were challenged if their human consequences proved dire.
Author | : Paula García-Ramírez |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2023-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000988090 |
This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.
Author | : Andrew McInnes |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1315523167 |
Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir of his wife, and Wollstonecraft's reception in the early nineteenth century. McInnes positions Wollstonecraft within the context of the eighteenth-century female philosopher figure as a literary archetype used in plays, poetry, polemic and especially novels, to represent the thinking woman and address anxieties about political, religious, and sexual heterodoxy. He provides detailed analyses of the ways in which women writers such as Mary Hays, Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth negotiate Wollstonecraft's reputation as personal, political, and sexual pariah to reformulate her radical politics for a post-revolutionary Britain in urgent need of reform. Frances Burney's The Wanderer and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, McInnes suggests, work as state-of-the-nation novels, drawing on Wollstonecraft's ideas to explore a changing England. McInnes concludes with an examination of Mary Shelley's engagement with her mother throughout her career as a novelist, arguing that Shelley gradually overcomes her anxiety over her mother's stature to address Wollstonecraft's ideas with increasing confidence.