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This text is the first to analyze Hays' most popular work, framed in the political and social environment of its generation, including contemporary criticisms and parodies of the work.
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This book argues that the female philosopher, a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romantic period. By imagining a series of alternate lives and afterlives for the female philosopher, women authors of the early Romantic period used the resources of the novel to evaluate Wollstonecraft’s ideas and legacy. This book examines how these writers’ opinions converged on such issues as progress, education, and ungendered virtues, and how they diverged on a fundamental question connected to Wollstonecraft’s life and feminist thought: whether the enlightened, intellectual woman should live according to her own principles, or sacrifice moral autonomy in the interest of pragmatic accommodation to societal expectations.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). --- Feminism in literature. --- English fiction --- Feminism in literature --- Philosophy. --- Women authors. --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Wollstonecraft, Mary, --- Hays, Mary, --- Opie, Amelia, --- Edgeworth, Maria, --- Austen, Jane, --- Influence. --- Wrongs of woman (Wollstonecraft, Mary). --- Sense and sensibility (Austen, Jane). --- Memoirs of Emma Courtney (Hays, Mary). --- 1700-1799. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Literature, Modern-18th century. --- Feminist theory. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Eighteenth-Century Literature. --- Feminism. --- Feminism --- Feminist philosophy --- Feminist sociology --- Theory of feminism --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literature, Modern—18th century.
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This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the 'private'. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing--a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification--in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.
Women in literature. --- Women and literature --- English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History --- History and cricitism. --- Women authors --- Hays, Mary, --- Robinson, Mary, --- Wollstonecraft, Mary, --- Burney, Fanny, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Perdita, --- Robinson, Perdita, --- Robinson, --- Friend to humanity, --- Laura Maria, --- Robinson, M. --- Juvenal, Horace, --- Randall, Anne Frances, --- Bramble, Tabitha, --- Robbinson, --- Arblay, --- D'Arblay, --- Burneĭ, --- Bi︠u︡rneĭ, --- Burney, Frances, --- D'Arblay, Fanny, --- D'Arblay, Frances Burney, --- Arblay, Frances Burney d', --- Author of Evelina, --- Evelina, Author of, --- Author of Evelina and Cecilia, --- Evelina and Cecilia, Author of, --- Author of Camilla, --- Camilla, Author of, --- Wood, --- Burney, Frances Anne, --- Wollstonecraft, Mary --- Cresswick, --- Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, --- authorship. --- auto/biography. --- celebrity. --- genre. --- life writing. --- literary afterlife. --- nineteenth century. --- reception. --- reputation. --- self-fashioning.
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