Research Catalog

Title

A vindication of the rights of woman : an authoritative text, backgrounds, the Wollstonecraft debate, criticism / Mary Wollstonecraft ; edited by Carol H. Poston.

Author

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

Publication

New York : Norton, c1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

Poston, Carol, 1943-

Description

xi, 363 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

This second edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document in English.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Norton critical edition

Subject

• Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
• Women's rights > Great Britain
• Women > Education > Great Britain

Genre/Form

Early works

Note

• "The text ... is the second 1792 London edition"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 361-363.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface to the second edition -- Preface -- Note on the text -- Text of a vindication of the rights of woman: Backgrounds -- John Locke -- From some thoughts concerning education -- [Clothes] -- [Cruelty] / Mary Astell -- From a serious proposal to the ladies / James Burgh -- Of the peculiar management of daughters / Catharine Macaulay -- From letters on education -- Letter iv. Amusement and instruction of boys and girls to be the same -- Letter xxi. Morals must be taught on immutable principles -- Letter xxii. No characteristic difference in sex -- Letter xxiii. Coquetry / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Letter to Henry Gabell -- Ralph M. Wardle -- [Intellectual and historical background of a vindication of the rights of woman] -- Wollstonecraft debate: David Levine -- Caricature of Mary Wollstonecraft / Mary Hays -- Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft / Thomas Taylor -- From a vindication of the rights of brutes / William Godwin --^
• From memoirs of the author of a vindication of the rights of woman / Richard Polwhele -- From the unsex'd females / Benjamin Silliman -- From the letters of Shahcoolen / Robert Southey -- To Mary Wollstonecraft / William Blake -- Mary / George Waintsbury -- [Mary Wollstonecraft in literary history] / George Eliot -- Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft / Emma Goldman -- Mary Wollstonecraft: Her tragic life and her passionate struggle for freedom / Alice Wexler --Afterword [Emma Goldman, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ruth Benedict] -- Virginia Woolf -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Ferdinand Lundberg -- Marynia Farnham -- [Mary Wollstonecraft and the psychopathology of feminism] -- Criticism -- Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough -- [Mary Wollstonecraft's demands for the education of woman] -- Carolyn W. Korsmeyer -- Reason and morals in the early feminist movement: mary wollstonecraft -- R.M. Janes -- On the reception of Mary wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman --^
• Elissa S. Guralnick -- Radical politics in mary wollstonecraft's a vindication of the rights of woman -- Moira Ferguson -- Janet Todd --[Feminist backgrounds and argument of a vindication of the rights of woman] -- Mitzi Myers -- Reform or ruin: "Revolution in female manners" -- Mary Poovey -- [Vindication of the rights of woman and female sexuality] -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Chronology -- Selected bibliography.

ISBN

• 0393955729 (pbk.)
• 039302427X

LCCN

^^^86021802^

OCLC

• 14188051
• SCSB-10162271

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library