Vindication of the Rights of Woman and The Wrongs of Woman, A, or Maria

by Wollstonecraft, Mary; Mellor, Anne K.; Chao, Noelle

• ISBN13: 9780321182739
• ISBN10: 0321182731
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-18
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

From Longman's Cultural Editions series,Wollstonecraft, edited by Anne K. Mellor and Noelle Chao, for the first time pairs Wollstonecraftrs"s feminist tract, the first in English letters,A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with her unfinished novel,The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria. By putting tract and novel together, this text presents a far richer and more complex discussion of Wollstonecraftrs"s political and literary opinions. A wealth of cultural contexts bearing on the "wrongs" of woman (their social and political oppression) in the 18 th century and on the development of the Gothic and realist novel further clarify these two texts. Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts-cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study.

Author Biography

Anne K. Mellor is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA. In addition to this co-edited volume, she has edited the canon-transforming anthology of Romantic era writing with Richard Matlak, British Literature 1780-1830; Romanticism and Feminism (Indiana UP, 1988); Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1995); The Other Mary Shelley (with Audrey Fisch and Esther Schor); Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility (with Maximilian Novak); Forging Connections: Women's Poetry from the Renaissance to Romanticism (with Jonathan Post and Felicity Nussbaum). She currently edits, with Clifford Siskin, the Palgrave Series in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. The winner of numerous teaching and scholarly awards and fellowships, she is the author of the following critical books: Blake's Human From Divine (1970), English Romantic Irony (1980); Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (1988); Romanticism and Gender (1993); Mothers of the Nation (2000). She will serve as the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in 2008-2009.

 

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
About Longman Cultural Editions	p. ix
About This Edition	p. xi
Table of Dates	p. xiii
Introduction to The Rights of Woman	p. 1
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)	p. 15
Introduction to The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria	p. 233
The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1798)	p. 245
Contexts	p. 359
The Rights of Women	p. 361
The Condition of Women	p. 361
from A Report from the Committee appointed to Enquire into the State of the Private Madhouses in this Kingdom (1763)	p. 361
from The Mansfield Judgment (1772)	p. 368
"Women of the Town," from A Picture of England (1789)	p. 372
from Letters on Education (1790)	p. 376
Responses to Wollstonecraft	p. 380
"The Rights of Woman" (1825; comp. 1793)	p. 380
from Letters and Essays, Moral, and Miscellaneous (1793)	p. 382
from Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women (1798)	p. 385
from The Unsex'd Females (1798)	p. 388
from Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex; with Suggestions for its Improvement (1798)	p. 395
from The Female Advocate (1799)	p. 401
from Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)	p. 411
from Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men, to Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery (1825)	p. 421
Literary Sources for The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria	p. 433
from Julie, ou la Nouvelle Heloise (1761; trans. William Kenrick, 1764)	p. 433
from Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs. Boscawen (1782)	p. 438
from A Sicilian Romance (1790)	p. 444
from Caleb Williams (1794)	p. 449
from Camilla (1796)	p. 457
Contemporary Reviews	p. 462
Reviews of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	p. 462
from The Analytical Review (1792)	p. 462
from the Monthly Review (1792)	p. 463
from the Critical Review (1792)	p. 464
Reviews of The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria	p. 467
from the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine (1798)	p. 467
from the Monthly Review (1798)	p. 469
Further Reading	p. 473
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