The female philosopher and her afterlives : Mary Wollstonecraft, the British novel, and the transformations of feminism, 1796-1811 / Deborah Weiss.
2017
PR868.F45 W45 2017
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The female philosopher and her afterlives : Mary Wollstonecraft, the British novel, and the transformations of feminism, 1796-1811 / Deborah Weiss.
Author
Weiss, Deborah R., author.
ISBN
9783319553634 (electronic book)
3319553631 (electronic book)
3319553623
9783319553627
3319553631 (electronic book)
3319553623
9783319553627
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[Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
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English
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1 online resource (291 pages).
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PR868.F45 W45 2017
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823.809352
Summary
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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Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives : Mary Wollstonecraft, the British Novel, and the Transformations of Feminism, 1796-1811.
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Table of Contents
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
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