The Vindication Of Man

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783849649746

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A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

In 1790 came that "extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence," Mary Wollstonecraft's reply to Edmund Burke's attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a "Vindication of the Rights of Men." In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke's defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. "It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language," Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, "and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a practised duellist. It was written at a white heat of indignation; yet it is altogether typical of the writer that, in the midst of the work, quite suddenly, she had one of her fits of callousness and morbid temper, and declared she would not go on. With great skill Johnson persuaded her to take it up again; and with equal suddenness her eagerness returned, and the book was finished and published before any one else could answer Burke."

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199555468

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A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and social life of the nation and her growing awareness of the relationship between politics and economics and between political institutions and the individual. In personal terms, the works show her struggling with a belief in the perfectibility of human nature through rational education, a doctrine that became weaker under the onslaught of her own miserable experience and the revolutionary massacres. Janet Todd's introduction illuminates the progress of Wollstonecraft's thought, showing that a reading of all three works allows her to emerge as a more substantial political writer than a study of The Rights of Woman alone can reveal. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Barnes & Noble,Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0760754942

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Barnes & Noble,Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education for girls and boys, an end to prejudice, and the call for women to become defined by their profession, not their partner. Mary Wollstonecrafts work was received with a mixture of admiration and outrageWalpole called her a hyena in petticoatsyet it established her as the mother of modern feminism.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015080887683

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781605204581

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A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Here, in one volume, are two classic treatises on individual freedom and inherent human worth from one of the most importantand most overlookedthinkers of the late 18th century. Revolutionary in all senses of the word, A Vindication of the Rights of Man, first published in 1790, and A Vindication of the Rights of Women, which followed two years later, were written against the background of the French Revolution, the debate over which caused an uproar in both England and France. In passionate and beautifully witty language, Wollstonecraft rebukes the crumbling and ineffectual traditions that allowed rich men to dominate society, and offers a stirring call for a new kind of culture, one in which all citizensmen and women, moneyed and working classare granted equal opportunity to access wealth both material and spiritual. Well received in their day and still important resources for anyone wishing to understand the history of feminism as well as the development of liberal republican thought in the wake of the American and French revolutions, these are must-reads for students of cultural history. British writer and educator MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (17591797), the mother of Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, espoused her then-radical feminist and liberal philosophies in other such works as Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) and History and Moral View of the Origins and Progress of the French Revolution (1793).

Author : Hilda L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521585090

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Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition by Hilda L. Smith Pdf

This collection of essays includes studies of women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft and explores in depth the political ideas of the writers in their historical and intellectual context. The volume illuminates the limitations placed on women's political writings and their broader political role by the social and scholarly institutions of early modern Europe. In so doing, the authors probe legal and political restraints, distinct national and state organisation, and assumptions concerning women's proper intellectual interests. In this endeavour, the volume explores questions and subjects traditionally ignored by historians of political thought and little considered even by current feminist theorists, groups who give slight attention to women's political ideas or place women's writings within the social and intellectual structures from which they emerged and which they helped to shape.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000054382

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

The First Edition of this Norton Critical Edition was both an acclaimed classroom text and ahead of its time. This Second Edition offers the best in Wollstonecraft scholarship and criticism since 1976, providing the ideal means for studying the first feminist document written in English.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291443547

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A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Author : Jane Hodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351923415

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Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin by Jane Hodson Pdf

The Revolution in France of 1789 provoked a major 'pamphlet war' in Britain as writers debated what exactly had happened, why it had happened, and where events were now headed. Jane Hodson's book explores the relationship between political persuasion, literary style, and linguistic theory in this war of words, focusing on four key texts: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, and William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. While these texts form the core of Hodson's project, she ranges far beyond them to survey other works by the same authors; more than 50 contemporaneous books on language; and pamphlets, novels, and letters by other writers. The scope of her study permits her to challenge earlier accounts of the relationship between language and politics that lack historical nuance. Rather than seeing the Revolution debate as a straightforward conflict between radical and conservative linguistic practices, Hodson argues that there is no direct correlation between a particular style or linguistic concept and the political affiliation of the writer. Instead, she shows how each writer attempts to mobilize contemporary linguistic ideas to lend their texts greater authority. Her book will appeal to literature scholars and to historians of language and linguistics working in the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1794
Category : France
ISBN : OSU:32435017640152

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An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution by Mary Wollstonecraft Pdf

Author : Frances Sherwood
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466808355

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Vindication by Frances Sherwood Pdf

Vindication is a prodigious, spectacular debut - a whirlwind of a novel that offers a passionate and surprising vision of life and love through the lens of the turbulent, romantic, often brutal eighteenth century. "Sherwood's heralded debut is an arresting and convincing portrayal of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century author of The Vindication of the Rights of Woman and perhaps the first feminist. Lending her subject a modern sensibility, Sherwood describes Mary's wretched childhood, and follows her through the humiliation of demeaning jobs and chronic poverty." - Publishers Weekly

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 172115549X

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A Vindication of Natural Society by Edmund Burke Pdf

A vindication of natural society Burke, Edmund The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. 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. 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.

Author : Sandrine Berges
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136205279

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The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Sandrine Berges Pdf

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This Guidebook introduces: Wollstonecraft’s life and the background to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman The ideas and text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wollstonecraft’s enduring influence in philosophy and our contemporary intellectual life It is ideal for anyone coming to Wollstonecraft’s classic text for the first time and anyone interested in the origins of feminist thought.

Author : Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521789524

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The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft by Claudia L. Johnson Pdf

A collected volume which addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career.

Author : Nancy E. Johnson,Paul Keen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108404235

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Mary Wollstonecraft in Context by Nancy E. Johnson,Paul Keen Pdf

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought, historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.