Mary Wollstonecraft

Cosmopolitan

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Laura Kirkley, Newcastle University_x000D_) Kirkley, Laura (Senior Lecturer in 18th Century Literature

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Considering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, Felicite de Genlis, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann and Margareta de Cambon, as well as British sentimental philosophers and the radical theologian Richard Price, this book argues that Wollstonecraft espouses a cosmopolitan ethic that subordinates local and national allegiances to philanthropy, or love of humankind. At a time of international conflict, burgeoning capitalism and colonial enterprise, she represents philanthropy and cultural authenticity as the means to resist tyranny and imperialism in all their forms and light the way to global justice.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-31
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt428 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399503105

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Laura Kirkley is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University. She is a comparatist and specialist in literary translation with particular expertise in British and French women’s writing of the Revolutionary era. She has published widely on Wollstonecraft, whose translations she is currently editing for the Oxford University Press edition of The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. ‘The Most Sublime Virtues’: Wollstonecraft’s Philanthropic Personae 2. ‘Original Spirit’: Translating the Maternal Educator 3. ‘Affection for the Whole Human Race’: Wollstonecraft’s Cosmopolitan Love of Country 4. ‘A More Enlightened Moral Love of Mankind’: Philanthropy and the French Revolution 5. ‘Gleams of Truth’: Transparency, Eloquence and the Language of Revolution 6. ‘Imperious Sympathies’: Wollstonecraft’s Philanthropic Traveller 7. ‘The Growth of Each Particular Soil’: Authenticity and Diversity in Wollstonecraft’s Narrative of Progress Coda: ‘Out-Laws of the World’: Cosmopolitanism in Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman Bibliography

This ground-breaking book argues for a "cosmopolitan" Wollstonecraft whose feminist and literary personas are shaped not only by her reading of Rousseau and by the French Revolution, but by intellectual engagement with translation projects that introduced her to Continental thought. Whether as progressive educator or Rousseauvian "solitary walker," Wollstonecraft constructed herself as a gendered cosmopolitan subject committed to an ethic of caring and justice. Drawing on contemporary philosophers of cosmopolitanism such as Nussbaum and Appiah, Kirkley’s detailed and authoritative account offers a substantially new understanding of Wollstonecraft’s importance as a transnational feminist writer and thinker for her and our times.