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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 101–119.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Elizabeth King Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria can be considered both gothic and anti‐gothic, in that it both evokes and subverts gothic imagery in order to emphasize women's oppression. Throughout the novel, Wollstonecraft employs gothic iconography while simultaneously dismissing gothic...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2018
... concentrate on the early (indeed, to my mind, originary) novelistic writings of Aphra Behn. For even if Behn did not voice her interest in the Rights of Woman as overtly or polemically as did Mary Wollstonecraft in her landmark feminist Vindication , so many of Behn’s narratives hinge upon the question...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 73–88.
Published: 01 April 2017
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In order to situate Hays’s thought on education and gender, modern
critics often consider her in close relation to Mary Wollstonecraft and other
predecessors. Paula R. Feldman’s British Women...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2022) 46 (1): 79–108.
Published: 01 January 2022
...” in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest (1694–97). 48 As Ferguson notes, “Benger continued in Mary Scott's footsteps with The Female Geniad , adding to Scott's celebration of the radical Catherine Macaulay the names of Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2024
... In Search of a Wife (1809) as full of “pedantry and affectation,” and parodied John Gregory, Lord Chesterfield, and Fordyce in several of her novels. 3 Similarly, Mary Wollstonecraft's dislike of conduct literature is well documented; attacking Gregory and Fordyce in particular, she wrote...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 48–73.
Published: 01 April 2006
... century,
Myers includes everyone from Mary Wollstonecraft to Hannah More in
this favorable assessment, seeing in More’s didactic writings for children
and for the lower classes “a woman’s brand of bourgeois progressivism” that
“reproved the rich and improved the poor,” a “maternal thinking...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2003
..., is intuitively correct.
Hays— outspoken feminist, friend of Mary Wollstonecraft and William
Godwin, and unabashed publicist of her unrequited love in the semi-auto-
biographical Emma Courtney— was not the soul sister of Elizabeth Hamil-
ton, retired Scottish writer of domestic tales, who relentlessly...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2008) 32 (1): 90–95.
Published: 01 January 2008
.... Moi Rickman analyzes a Decem-
ber 1788 review of an essay on race by Samuel Stanhope Smith, attributing the
review instead to Mary Wollstonecraft and showing how the language of sensi-
bility affected eighteenth-century discussions of race. Felicity Nussbaum ques-
tions standard assumptions about...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 81–87.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Historians of political thought have been recalcitrant to
admit even the most well-known figures, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, into
their canonical fold. As Berenice A. Carroll argued some time ago in “The
Politics of ‘Originality’: Women and the Class System of the Intellect,” if we
84 Eighteenth...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (1): 129–132.
Published: 01 January 2013
... by
Burke’s more skeptical readers, from Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine
onwards. Although all Burke’s democratic readers do well to emulate Hazlitt’s
admiration of him, or his texts, such readers also need to bear in mind that
Burke’s writings and speeches sought to uphold the political privileges...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 September 2024
... antagonistic relation between the Enlightenment and the Gothic. Elizabeth King, in “Anti-Gothic Animals in Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria ,” demonstrates how, in addition, the Gothic itself can function as an enlightening force; she goes on to invoke the “anti-Gothic” as a mode that both adopts and subverts...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2002
... of Mary Wollstonecraft, ed.
Janet Todd & Marilyn Butler. 7 vols. (London: William Pickering, 1989), 4:7.
Wollstonecraft states, “The mother . . . ought to suckle her children . . . the first years
of a child’s life are frequently made miserable through negligence...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 158–177.
Published: 01 September 2021
... science gender material culture eighteenth century In June 1795, Mary Wollstonecraft traveled to Scandinavia on a venture for the American businessman Gilbert Imlay, who had recently ended their romantic relationship. Following “eleven days of weariness on board a vessel not intended...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 January 2011
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those of his sister Sarah.6 The collected letters of other women novelists
before Austen, such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary
Hays, have also been printed in modern scholarly editions.7
Yet we have no collected modern edition of Samuel...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2011
... correct morality, Scheuermann argues, transcend political divisions
in Austen’s time. Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft may have been poles
apart politically, but when they wrote on the education and conduct of young
women, “their advice was identical” (4).
Austen expected a degree of rigor...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (1): 28–57.
Published: 01 January 2018
...] of the
canon of Western political thought”Ð a title lately given, as Daniel O’Neill
remarks, to Mary Wollstonecraft, whom Cowley exceeded in her feminism
and her vision of Britain’s imperial future, as I argue here (452).7
The late-century georgic mode, with its dependence on tradition and
focus...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (2): 61–86.
Published: 01 April 2004
...-
ities for going beyond contractarianism. In order to emphasize the positive
nature of this shift, I wish first to offer an analysis of a near-contemporary
work of political philosophy, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights
of Woman (1792).
Wollstonecraft exhibits little epistemological...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 120–142.
Published: 01 September 2024
... by her mother's transgression, is the object of much debate. George Haggerty reads Victoria's desire as a kind of victimization brought on by the mother who denied her daughter subjectivity (168). 26 The representation of the mother's fall parodies Mary Wollstonecraft's feminist projection of how...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 112–130.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., she was reviewed by Mary Wollstonecraft, appre-
ciated by Jane Austen, and preferred by some readers over Frances Burney.3
Sarah Harriet Burney began writing novels in the late eighteenth century,
an explosive era for women writers, and kept writing through the Roman-
tic and into the Victorian...
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2007) 31 (3): 92–109.
Published: 01 September 2007
... culminates in a discussion of women who were popular philoso-
phers, among them Aphra Behn and Mary Wollstonecraft. Although Prince’s
chapter is complex, perhaps beyond the reach of an undergraduate reader, he
nonetheless provides a way of reading philosophy that not only accommodates
but honors...
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