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Maria, the Wrongs of Woman (New Classics)

Mary Mary Wollstonecraft
Maria the Wrongs of Woman New Classics Book PDF

Author : Mary Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722633999

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THE WRONGS OF WOMAN, like the wrongs of the oppressed part of mankind, may be deemed necessary by their oppressors: but surely there are a few, who will dare to advance before the improvement of the age, and grant that my sketches are not the abortion of a distempered fancy, or the strong delineations of a wounded heart. In writing this novel, I have rather endeavoured to pourtray passions than manners. In many instances I could have made the incidents more dramatic, would I have sacrificed my main object, the desire of exhibiting the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society. In the invention of the story, this view restrained my fancy; and the history ought rather to be considered, as of woman, than of an individual. The sentiments I have embodied. In many works of this species, the hero is allowed to be mortal, and to become wise and virtuous as well as happy, by a train of events and circumstances. The heroines, on the contrary, are to be born immaculate, and to act like goddesses of wisdom, just come forth highly finished Minervas from the head of Jove. For my part, I cannot suppose any situation more distressing, than for a woman of sensibility, with an improving mind, to be bound to such a man as I have described for life; obliged to renounce all the humanizing affections, and to avoid cultivating her taste, lest her perception of grace and refinement of sentiment, should sharpen to agony the pangs of disappointment. Love, in which the imagination mingles its bewitching colouring, must be fostered by delicacy. I should despise, or rather call her an ordinary woman, who could endure such a husband as I have sketched.

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547415398

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"Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman" is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work. Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it.

Maria

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798673671368

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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Maria

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609778835

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Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published. The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression. The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.

Maria

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798674185611

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ABODES OF HORROR have frequently been described, and castles, filled with spectres and chimeras, conjured up by the magic spell of genius to harrow the soul, and absorb the wondering mind. But, formed of such stuff as dreams are made of, what were they to the mansion of despair, in one corner of which Maria sat, endeavouring to recall her scattered thoughts!Surprise, astonishment, that bordered on distraction, seemed to have suspended her faculties, till, waking by degrees to a keen sense of anguish, a whirlwind of rage and indignation roused her torpid pulse. One recollection with frightful velocity following another, threatened to fire her brain, and make her a fit companion for the terrific inhabitants, whose groans and shrieks were no unsubstantial sounds of whistling winds, or startled birds, modulated by a romantic fancy, which amuse while they affright; but such tones of misery as carry a dreadful certainty directly to the heart. What effect must they then have produced on one, true to the touch of sympathy, and tortured by maternal apprehension!Her infant's image was continually floating on Maria's sight, and the first smile of intelligence remembered, as none but a mother, an unhappy mother, can conceive. She heard her half speaking half cooing, and felt the little twinkling fingers on her burning bosom--a bosom bursting with the nutriment for which this cherished child might now be pining in vain. From a stranger she could indeed receive the maternal aliment, Maria was grieved at the thought--but who would watch her with a mother's tenderness, a mother's self-denial?

Maria

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798622162701

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We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades in its original form. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Maria, Or the Wrongs of Woman

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 148487272X

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THE PUBLIC are here presented with the last literary attempt of an author, whose fame has been uncommonly extensive, and whose talents have probably been most admired, by the persons by whom talents are estimated with the greatest accuracy and discrimination. There are few, to whom her writings could in any case have given pleasure, that would have wished that this fragment should have been suppressed, because it is a fragment. There is a sentiment, very dear to minds of taste and imagination, that finds a melancholy delight in contemplating these unfinished productions of genius, these sketches of what, if they had been filled up in a manner adequate to the writer's conception, would perhaps have given a new impulse to the manners of a world. The purpose and structure of the following work, had long formed a favourite subject of meditation with its author, and she judged them capable of producing an important effect. The composition had been in progress for a period of twelve months. She was anxious to do justice to her conception, and recommenced and revised the manuscript several different times. So much of it as is here given to the public, she was far from considering as finished, and, in a letter to a friend directly written on this subject, she says, "I am perfectly aware that some of the incidents ought to be transposed, and heightened by more harmonious shading; and I wished in some degree to avail myself of criticism, before I began to adjust my events into a story, the outline of which I had sketched in my mind."* The only friends to whom the author communicated her manuscript, were Mr. Dyson, the translator of the Sorcerer, and the present editor; and it was impossible for the most inexperienced author to display a stronger desire of profiting by the censures and sentiments that might be suggested.

Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Esprios Classics)

Mary Shelley
Maria Or The Wrongs of Woman Esprios Classics Book PDF

Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1034333682

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Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Esprios Classics) by Mary Shelley Pdf

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft. Shelley's mother died less than a month after giving birth to her. She was raised by her father who provided her with a rich if informal education, encouraging her to adhere to his own anarchist political theories. When she was four, her father married a neighbour with whom Shelley came to have a troubled relationship.

Maria

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798700493406

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"Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a feminist novel set in 18th century England, at a time when women were just mere assets to men. Having woken up in the wrong marriage, Maria tries to escape her husbands and instead, she is imprisoned in an asylum. There she meets warden Jemima, a woman abused as a child and fellow inmate Henry Darnford, sane but living a chaotic life. Maria ends up falling in love with Henry preparing us for an open ending with many twists and turns.

Maria

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798576735785

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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Adriana Craciun
Mary Wollstonecraft s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Book PDF

Author : Adriana Craciun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317797777

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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Adriana Craciun Pdf

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides the ideal starting point for students new to Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work, providing carefully focused introductory materials combined with reprinted and newly annotated source documents. Key materials in this sourcebook include: *letters by Wollstonecraft and important contemporary documents *nineteenth-century responses to the text *twentieth-century critical readings *annotated key passages, cross-referenced to critical texts *suggestions for further reading. This is the essential guide to a key literary and political text.

Mother of Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft,William Godwin
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft,William Godwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1685650325

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Mother of Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft,William Godwin Pdf

THE SEMINAL, UNFINISHED WORK BY THE MOTHER OF MODERN FEMINISM.And a memoir written by her grief-stricken husband. Do you know whose shoulders you stand on...Mary Wollstonecraft lived for 38 years¿and changed the world. She died in agony 11 days after giving birth to Mary Shelley, who would become the author of Frankenstein. Her heartbroken husband, William Godwin, vowed to compile her memoirs and publish them along with her unfinished Victorian gothic novel in 1798. He meant to glorify her. The opposite happened. European society made a freak of Wollstonecraft, her work and her memory. What could she have written that scandalized so much? What did Godwin reveal to incite such ire? In The Wrongs of Woman, Maria has been separated from her infant daughter and imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. There, she forms an unexpected friendship with one of the female wards. Could romance follow? Delve into the most radical feminist work from the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and find out. Wollstonecraft's courage made our world a more equal place. Godwin's love ensured we could know whose shoulders we stand on.

Misanthropy in the Age of Reason

Joseph Harris
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Author : Joseph Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192867575

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Misanthropy in the Age of Reason by Joseph Harris Pdf

Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres, periods, and countries to explore the developing status of misanthropy in the European literary and intellectual imagination from the late Renaissance to the dawn of Romanticism. During this period, the term 'misanthropy' shifts from being an obscure Greek calque to being almost banal in its ubiquity. In order to trace the contours of the period's evolving attitudes towards misanthropy, this study takes a combined thematic and historical approach. After two chapters offering close readings of the period's key icons of misanthropy--Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Molière's Alceste--the remaining six chapters each explore different thematic issues of misanthropy as they surface across the period. Drawing on works by Shakespeare, Molière, Hobbes, Pascal, Rochester, Swift, Rousseau, Kotzebue, Schiller, Wollstonecraft, and Leopardi, as well as countless less canonical writers, this study demonstrates that the misanthrope is not a fixed, stable figure in early modern literature. Rather, he--or very occasionally she--emerges in many guises, from philosopher to comic grouch, from tragic hero to moral censor, from cynical villain to disappointed idealist, from quasi-bestial outsider to worldly satirist. As both critic of humanity and object of critical scrutiny, the misanthrope challenges straightforward oppositions between individual and society, virtue and vice, reason and folly, human and animal.

Maria

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798684966590

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Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her modern political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 with the aid of her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her maximum radical feminist work.Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves across the tale of female imprisoned in an insane asylum via her husband. It specializes in the societal as opposed to the person "wrongs of lady" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft regarded as the patriarchal organization of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the felony system that covered it. However, the heroine's inability to relinquish her romantic fantasies also reveals ladies' collusion in their oppression through fake and adverse sentimentalism. The novel pioneered the celebration of female sexuality and cross-class identification between girls.

Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought

Eileen O’Neill,Marcy P. Lascano
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Author : Eileen O’Neill,Marcy P. Lascano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030181185

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Feminist History of Philosophy: The Recovery and Evaluation of Women's Philosophical Thought by Eileen O’Neill,Marcy P. Lascano Pdf

Over the course of the past twenty-five years, feminist theory has had a forceful impact upon the history of Western philosophy. The present collection of essays has as its primary aim to evaluate past women’s published philosophical work, and to introduce readers to newly recovered female figures; the collection will also make contributions to the history of the philosophy of gender, and to the history of feminist social and political philosophy, insofar as the collection will discuss women’s views on these issues. The volume contains contributions by an international group of leading historians of philosophy and political thought, whose scholarship represents some of the very best work being done in North and Central America, Canada, Europe and Australia.