Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives

Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1811

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Deborah Weiss

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-08-30
Mått148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt396 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Antal sidor291
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319856391

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Deborah Weiss is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Alabama, USA. She is a specialist in the long eighteenth century with research interests in the interconnections among gender, economics, education, and Enlightenment. Her articles have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in Romanticism, The Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Studies in the Novel.

Introduction: The Female Philosopher.- 1.Mansions of Despair: The Wrongs of Woman and the Commonality of Experience.- 2.Passions of the Mind: The Moral Martyrdom of Emma Courtney.- 3.More of a Philosopher: Adeline Mowbray and “Every-Day Nature”.- 4.Intellectual Rules: The Extraordinary Ordinary Belinda.- 5. Empirical Ethics: Sense and Sensibility and Female Philosophy.- Conclusion: The Fate of the Female Philosopher: Polwhele, More, Byron, and Beyond.- Index.-