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The essays in this collection represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft. The book examines the reception of Wollstonecraft's 'Vindication of the Rights of Woman'.

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International library of essays in the history of social and political thought

Machine generated contents note: pt. I SURVEY OF THE WORK AND REPUTATION

1. `Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft', The Leader, 290, pp. 988-9 / George Eliot

2. `Mary Wollstonecraft, Her Tragic Life and Her Passionate Struggle for Freedom', reprinted in Feminist Studies, 7, (1981), pp. 114-21 / Emma Goldman

3. `Mary Wollstonecraft', in The Common Reader: Second Series, London: The Hogarth Press, pp. 156-63 / Virginia Woolf

4. `On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', Journal of the History of Ideas, 39, pp. 293-302 / Regina M. Janes

5. `Mary Wollstonecraft: Texts and Contexts', Eighteenth-Century Life, 2, pp. 38-40 / Gary Kelly

6. `Remembering Mary Wollstonecraft on the Bicentenary of the Publication of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 15, pp. 125-30 / Sylvana Tomaselli

pt. II CONTEXTS: HISTORY, POLITICS, CULTURE

Wollstonecraft and Social, Philosophical and Political Theory

7. `Mary Wollstonecraft: Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthwoman', Journal of the History of Ideas, 50, pp. 95-115 / G.J. Barker-Benfield

8. `Wollstonecraft, Feminism, and Democracy: Being Bastilled', in Maria J. Falco (ed.), Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, pp. 33-45 / Virginia Sapiro

9. `Mary Wollstonecraft and the Reserve of Reason', Studies in Romanticism, 45, pp. 3-24 / Simon Swift

Wollstonecraft, Gender and Enlightenment

10. `Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Desire', Wordsworth Circle, 29, pp. 186-91 / Janet Todd

11. `The Enlightenment Debate on Women', History Workshop Journal, 20, pp. 101-24 / Sylvana Tomaselli

Wollstonecraft Education and Conduct Literature

12. `Her Demands for the Education of Woman', in A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman, London: Longmans, Green & Co., pp. 140-63 / Emma Rauschenbush-Clough

13. `Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Or, Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft Compared', Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 5, pp. 121-39 / Regina M. Janes

14. `Advice and Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Sex Education', in Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor (eds), Women, Gender and Enlightenment, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 140-55 / Vivien Jones

Wollstonecraft and the French Revolution

15. `Gender in Revolution: Edmund Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft', in Kelvin Everest (ed.), Revolution in Writing: British Literary Responses to the French Revolution, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, pp. 65-100 / Tom Furniss

16. `The Grand Causes which Combine to Carry Mankind Forward: Wollstonecraft, History and Revolution', Women's Writing, 4, pp. 155-72 / Jane Rendall

Wollstonecraft and Religion

17. Mary Wilson Carpenter (1986) `Sibylline Apocalyptics: Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Job's Mother's Womb', Literature and History, 12, pp. 215-28

18. `For the Love of God: Religion and the Erotic Imagination in Wollstonecraft's Feminism', in Eileen Janes Yeo (ed.), Mary Wollstonecraft and 200 Years of Feminisms, London and New York: Rivers Oram Press, pp. 15-35, 244-6 / Barbara Taylor

Wollstonecraft and Romanticism

19. `Godwin's Memoirs of Wollstonecraft: The Shaping of Self and Subject', Studies in Romanticism, 20, pp. 299-316 / Mitzi Myers

20. `Death in the Face of Nature: Self, Society and Body in Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark', Romanticism, 1, pp. 177-92 / John Whale

21. `No Equal Mind: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Young Romantics', The Charles Lamb Bulletin, 79, pp. 225-38 / Harriet Devine Jump

Wollstonecraft, Femininity/Sexuality/Feminism

22. `Wild Nights: Pleasure/Sexuality/Feminism', in Frederic Jameson et al. (eds), Formations of Pleasure, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 15-35 / Cora Kaplan

23. `Mary Wollstonecraft and the Wild Wish of Early Feminism', History Workshop Journal, 33, pp. 197-219 / Barbara Taylor

24. `(Female) Philosophy in the Bedroom: Mary Wollstonecraft and Female Sexuality', Women's Writing, 4, pp. 143-54 / Gary Kelly

Wollstonecraft, Slavery and the Orient

25. `Mary Wollstonecraft and the Problematic of Slavery', in Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean Connections, New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 8-33, 145-9 / Moira Ferguson

pt. III TEXTS: NOVELS, LITERARY REVIEWS, LETTERS

Wollstonecraft's Literary Reviews

26. `Mary Wollstonecraft's Contributions to the Analytical Review', Essays in Literature, 11, pp. 187-99 / Sally N. Stewart

Wollstonecraft's Fictions

Mary. A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria. A Fragment

27. `Mary Wollstonecraft: The Gender of Genres in Late Eighteenth-Century England', Novel, 15, pp. 111-26 / Mary Poovey

28. `Wollstonecraft and Godwin: Reading the Secrets of the Political Novel', Studies in Romanticism, 27, pp. 221-51 / Tilottama Rajan

Wollstonecraft's Letters

29. `Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written ... in Sweden: Toward Romantic Autobiography', Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 8, pp. 165-85 / Mitzi Myers

30. `Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters', in Claudia L. Johnson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 7-23 / Janet Todd

Wollstonecraft's Death

31. `The Death of Mary Wollstonecraft', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 20, pp. 187-205 / Vivien Jones.

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 > Criticism and interpretation.

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 > Political and social views.