Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognized as a writer of formidable talent across a range of genres, including journalism, letters and travel writing, and is increasingly understood as an heir to eighteenth-century literary and political traditions as well as a forebear of romanticism. This Companion is the first collected volume to address all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. The diverse and searching essays specially commissioned for this volume do justice to Wollstonecraft's pivotal importance in her own time and since, paying attention not only to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but to the full range of her work. A chronology and guides to further reading offer further essential information for scholars and students of this remarkable writer.

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"Johnson has assembled 14 essays by the leading scholars in the field to produce one of the most authoritative and wide-ranging studies of Wollstonecraft to date, one that treats not only the famous "Vindication" but also her novels, letters, travel writing, and political and religious though. The collection will prove most useful to upper-division undergraduates and beginning graduate students." Choice novel

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• Date Published: June 2002
• format: Paperback
• isbn: 9780521789523
• length: 308 pages

• dimensions: 228 x 154 x 19 mm
• weight: 0.49kg
• availability: Available