Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Mary Wollstonecraft ,  Michelle Faubert
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.456kg
ISBN:  

9781554810222

ISBN 10:   1554810221
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   05 April 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Works Cited and Consulted Mary Wollstonecraft: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Mary, A Fiction The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria Appendix A: Relevant Texts by and on Mary Wollstonecraft From Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) From Wollstonecraft, “Cave of Fancy” (composed 1787; published 1798) From Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) From Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) William Godwin, “Preface” to the Letters in Posthumous Works (1798) From William Godwin, Memoirs of Wollstonecraft (1798) Appendix B: The Political Context: Education, Human Rights, and the French Revolution From Catharine Macaulay, Letters on Education (1790) From Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution (1790) From Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1791) From William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) Appendix C: The Novel of Sentiment, the Woman of Sensibility, and the Gothic From Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, ou, de l’Éducation (1762) From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) From Anna Lætitia Barbauld, “To a Lady, With Some Painted Flowers” (1792) From William Godwin, Caleb Williams (1794) From William Beckford, Elegant Enthusiast (1796) Appendix D: Education versus Nature: Phrenology, Associationism, and Nerve Theory From William Perfect, Cases of Insanity (1785) From Johann Caspar Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy (1789) From Joseph Priestley on Hartley’s Associationism (1790) Select Bibliography

Reviews

Mary Wollstonecraft's early novella Mary and her late, unfinished Maria are often relegated to critical contexts for her more famous Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Michelle Faubert's new edition makes abundantly clear that these novellas deserve sustained critical attention in their own right. Faubert offers a generously annotated text framed by a thorough, detailed, and clearly written introduction and a carefully chosen selection of supplementary materials. Readers are now well positioned to appreciate the literary features of these works alongside their contribution to feminist theories of education, 1790s radicalism, and eighteenth-century medical theories about mental development and gender difference. This is an outstanding critical edition--exactly what one has come to expect from Broadview Press. --Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University

Here, combined in one authoritative edition, are the fictional works of this founding 'mother of feminism,' novellas that grapple with the same societal challenges that Mary Wollstonecraft herself confronted in the age of sensibility. Michelle Faubert has chosen her contextual materials wisely from among the political writings of Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and their circle in London, and from among the broader circle of European texts dealing with education. With a lively, informative introduction, the book provides an excellent compendium of the ideas that galvanized the imaginative literature of Romanticism. - Denise Gigante, Stanford University Mary Wollstonecraft's early novella Mary and her late, unfinished Maria are often relegated to critical contexts for her more famous Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Michelle Faubert's new edition makes abundantly clear that these novellas deserve sustained critical attention in their own right. Faubert offers a generously annotated text framed by a thorough, detailed, and clearly written introduction and a carefully chosen selection of supplementary materials. Readers are now well positioned to appreciate the literary features of these works alongside their contribution to feminist theories of education, 1790s radicalism, and eighteenth-century medical theories about mental development and gender difference. This is an outstanding critical edition-exactly what one has come to expect from Broadview Press. - Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University

Author Information

Michelle Faubert is Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba and Visiting Fellow at Northumbria University.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions