Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : A Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9780415227353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 200 str.

A. Craciun; Dr Adriana Craciun

Opis

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides a starting point for readers new to Wollstonecraft's work. Key materials include: letters by Wollstonecraft and important contemporary documents; 19th-century responses to the text; 20th-century critical readings; annotated key passages, cross-referenced to critical texts; and suggestions for further reading. With substantial introductory materials throughout and extensive annotation, this is a useful guide to a key literary and political text.

O autorze

Adriana Craciun lectures at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the editor of Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya, or The Moor(1997), co-editor of Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and The French Revolution (2001) and author of the forthcoming Fatal Women of Romanticism (2002).