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Hays, Mary

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Hays, Mary --- Heloise

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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.

Hays, Mary, 1759 or 60-1843. --- Hays, Mary, 1759 or 60-1843. Memoirs of Emma Courtney. --- Literature. --- Hays, Mary,

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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 is an investigation of the biases, contradictions, errors, ambiguities, gaps, and historical contexts in biographies of controversial British women who published during the long nineteenth century, many of them left unchecked and perpetuated from publication to publication. Fourteen scholars analyze the agenda, problems, and strengths of biographical material, highlighting the flaws, deficiencies, and influences that have distorted the portraits of women such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays, Sydney Owenson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Norton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, Lady Florence Dixie, George Eliot, and Edith Simcox. Through exposing distortions, this fascinating study demonstrates that biographies are often more about the biographer than they are about the biographee and that they are products of the time in which they are written.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- English literature --- Literature --- History --- cultuur --- emancipatie --- literatuur --- vrouwen --- gender --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- Engelse literatuur --- Wollstonecraft, Mary --- Simcox, E. --- Hays, Mary --- Landon, Letitia --- Norton, Caroline --- Gaskell, Elizabeth --- Dixie, Florence --- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett --- Morgan, Sydney Owenson --- Montagu, Mary Wortley --- Martineau, Harriet --- Brontë, Charlotte --- Hemans, Felicia --- Eliot, George --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Great Britain --- Ireland