Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity

Author:   Catherine Packham (University of Sussex)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   301
Publication Date:   03 July 2025
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Author:   Catherine Packham (University of Sussex)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781009395816


ISBN 10:   1009395815
Pages:   301
Publication Date:   03 July 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction. Mary Wollstonecraft and eighteenth-century political economy; 1. Political economy and commercial society in the 1790s; 2. The engagement with Burke: contesting the 'natural course of things'; 3. Property, passions and manners: political economy and the Vindications; 4. Political economy in revolution: France, free commerce and Wollstonecraft's history of the French Revolution; 5. Property in political economy: modernity, individuation, and literary form; 6. Credit and credulity: political economy, gender, and the sentiments in The Wrongs of Woman; Conclusion. Imagination, futurity, and the value of things.

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'[T]his is a scholarly and fascinating study. … Recommended.' R. T. Ingoglia, Choice 'Packham contributes significantly to scholarship by setting Wollstonecraft's achievement in the context of various Enlightenment schools of 'political economy' … and suggests convincingly that the implications of Wollstonecraft's far-seeing critique of patriarchy and property for the study of gender, race, ethnicity and politics are legion.' Eileen M. Hunt, The Times Literary Supplement


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Catherine Packham is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies, Culture, Politics (2012) and co-editor of Political Economy, Literature and the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850 (2018). She was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and has published widely on Wollstonecraft and eighteenth-century political economy.

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