Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides the ideal starting point for students new to Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work, providing carefully focused introductory materials combined with reprinted and newly annotated source documents. Key materials in this sourcebook include: *letters by Wollstonecraft and important contemporary documents *nineteenth-century responses to the text *twentieth-century critical readings *annotated key passages, cross-referenced to critical texts *suggestions for further reading. This is the essential guide to a key literary and political text.
| ISBN: | 9780415227360 |
| Publication date: | 25th April 2002 |
| Author: | Adriana Birkbeck, University of london, UK Craciun |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Guides to Literature |
| Genres: |
Feminism and feminist theory Literary studies: general Literary companions, book reviews and guides |