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...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...

... 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...

...- 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...

... Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 73 74   Eighteenth-Century Life 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...

... argument in his new contribution to the de- bate on imagination during the Romantic era. The method he applies to the prose of a selection of writers—some of whom are not usually viewed as theorists of the imagination (Paine, Wollstonecraft, Cobbett, Godwin...

..., 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...

... principal concern is to do them neatly .” Secondary, in fact, are all her virtues and qualities, for respecting religion, he makes her parents thus address her, accustomed to submission—“Your husband will instruct you in good time .” —Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 1...

... 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...

... and Wollstonecraft in their linking of polit- ical despotism and patriarchal despotism. Certainly, Mazzini’s careless education of his daughters “as his pride rather than his affections seemed to dictate” (p. 3), not to mention his demonstrations of paternal severity...

... to resemble those of other countries under the same parallel” ( Strictures , 1:xi–xii; see also 2:31). 9. For instance, Vivien Jones, in “Mary Wollstonecraft and the Literature of Advice and Instruction,” The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft , ed. Claudia Johnson (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ...

...] 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Godwin and Wollstonecraft, whose narratives in their messy exploration of internal contradictions and moral ambiguity point toward a newly developing Romanticism” (252). Without ever saying as much, Wallace develops a case for the romanticism of the English Jacobin novel on the basis of such messy...

... 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...

.... 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...

... demonic passion, fueled 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...