@article{838309,
      recid = {838309},
      author = {Weiss, Deborah R.,},
      title = {The female philosopher and her afterlives : Mary  Wollstonecraft, the British novel, and the transformations  of feminism, 1796-1811 /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {[Cham, Switzerland] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (291 pages).},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/838309},
}