Mary Wollstonecraft and political economy : the feminist critique of commercial modernity /

Why was Wollstonecraft's landmark feminist work, the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, categorised as a work of political economy when it was first published? Taking this question as a starting point, Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy gives a compelling new account of Wollstonecraft a...

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Prif Awdur: Packham, Catherine (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Cyfres:Cambridge studies in Romanticism.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009395823
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft and eighteenth-century political economy
  • Political economy and commercial society in the 1790s
  • The engagement with Burke : contesting the 'natural course of things'
  • Property, passions and manners : political economy and the vindications
  • Political economy in revolution : France, free commerce and Wollstonecraft's History of the French Revolution
  • Property in political economy : modernity, individuation, and literary form
  • Credit and credulity : political economy, gender, and the sentiments in The wrongs of woman
  • Conclusion: Imagination, futurity, and the value of things.