Mary Wollstonecraft and feminist republicanism
Subtitle: independence, rights and the experience of unfreedom
By: by Lena Halldenius
Series: Enlightenment world -- no. 30; Enlightenment world -- no. 30.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781315653792
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views; Republicanism in literature; Républicanisme dans la littérature
Description: Mary Wollstonecraft is a writer whose work continues to provoke scholarly debate. But Wollstonecraft the historical figure often obscures her importance as a philosopher. Halldenius explores Wollstonecraft's political philosophy, focusing on her treatment of republicanism and independence, to propose a new way of reading her work - that of a 'feminist republican'. Wollstonecraft's works of fiction and non-fiction are analysed and the use of her own experience of a lack of freedom (the lot of an eighteenth-century woman) is examined as a valid line of philosophical enquiry and not - as others have viewed them - as a form of autobiography.
Notes: Originally published 2015 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-139) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. A feminist republican; title: 2. Liberty as independence; title: 3. Experiencing unfreedom : the stories of three women; title: 5. Acting morally; title: 6. Revolution : the political circumstances of action and change; title: 7. Liberation : economic independence and civil existence.