Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than previous works, with added information that has not previously been associated with Wollstonecraft, such as the story of Reverend Mr. Joshua Waterhouse.Although there are over fifty book-length biographies published on Wollstonecraft, very few agree on much about Wollstonecraft. She seems to have become an “everywoman,” or a figure unfixed in time and protean. Deemed the Mother of Feminism, like feminism itself, she is what people have wanted her to be and is by no means an immutable or universal personage.A study of her life as evident by her works and vice versa, this monograph intends to refocus the image of Wollstonecraft for students and scholars, informed by biographical texts on Wollstonecraft and on those people in Wollstonecraft’s life and acquaintance, historical context, and exposition from her works.
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Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft.
ContentsIntroductionPart 1:Chapter 1: The Oldest Wollstonecraft Daughter: Becoming a FeministChapter 2: "Misery Haunts this House": Rescuing BessChapter 3: Wollstonecrafts' Melancholy and MadnessChapter 4: Becoming the EducatorChapter 5: A Mother of Much, Many, and More or LessPart 2:Chapter 6: "A Sexless Mind," Overstrained Sensibility, and SapphismChapter 7: Melting in and out of LoveChapter 8: Around Johnson's TableChapter 9: Barrier Love and Gilbert ImlayChapter 10: Wollstonecraft and LucretiaPart 3:Chapter 11: Utopian Dreamer, Topographical Untruths, and Imlay's Literal LiesChapter 12: Lone Traveler on the High Seas: "Lost in a Sea of Thoughts"Chapter 13: "Barren Blooming" in Britain but Germinating in AmericaChapter 14: "I am Buried Alive": Wollstonecraft's Afterbirth of Rights of Woman in BritainChapter 15: "A Thing of Shreds and Patches": Wollstonecraft's Postmortem
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ISBN
9781032649399
Publisert
2024-04-09
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Routledge
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720 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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U, P, 05, 06
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Engelsk
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360
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Dr Brenda Ayres has been teaching British literature for forty years and currently teaches graduate courses online for Liberty University. To date, she has published 75 books, most of them scholarly. The latest are Religion and Wollstonecraft (2024), The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism (2024), and The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2023).