Mary Wollstonecraft in Context by Nancy E Johnson

Mary Wollstonecraft in Context by Nancy E Johnson

Provides crucial biographical, critical, historical, and cultural context for the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Britain's first feminist and political theorist. Leading scholars provide students and scholars of eighteenth-century feminism, literature, social, and political theory with essential background to understand Wollstonecraft's diverse writing.

'An impressive showcase for the breadth and depth of current scholarship' E. J. Clery, Times Literary Supplement
'Contributors' cross-references to other entries in the book allow readers to follow specific lines of inquiry. Notable for its breadth, this collection positions Wollstonecraft as a major feminist writer, literary critic, and social commentator.' C. L. Bandish, Choice
'… Wollstonecraft in Context offers a richly veined resource to borrow, to browse, to burrow into.' Susan J. Wolfson, The Wordsworth Circle
'The collection successfully breathes new life into the static, and oftentimes caricatured, conception of Wollstonecraft as a pioneering feminist by giving equal valence to her work as novelist, letter writer, reviewer, educator, and translator … These collected essays succeed at nuancing Wollstonecraft's life and work while unfolding new avenues for investigation.' Adela Ramos, Eighteenth-Century Fiction
'The book offers a cogent narrative for understanding Wollstonecraft's thinking as historically grounded …' Ashley Cross, European Romantic Review

Nancy E. Johnson is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York, New Paltz. She is the author of The English Jacobin Novel on Rights Property and the Law (2004), editor of Impassioned Jurisprudence (2015), and scholarly editor of The Court Journals of Frances Burney, Volume VI: 1790–1 (2019). She has published widely on literature of the 1790s and the intersections of literature and legal thought in the eighteenth century. Paul Keen is Professor of English at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author and editor of several books including The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, 1999), Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750–1800 (Cambridge, 2012), and The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800–1850 (forthcoming).

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ISBN 13	9781108416993
ISBN 10	1108416993
Title	Mary Wollstonecraft in Context
Author	Nancy E Johnson
Series	Literature In Context
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2020-02-06
Number of pages	390
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