Product Description

Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognized as a writer of formidable talent across a range of genres, including journalism, letters and travel writing, and is increasingly understood as an heir to eighteenth-century literary and political traditions as well as a forebear of romanticism. This Companion is the first collected volume to address all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. The diverse and searching essays specially commissioned for this volume do justice to Wollstonecraft's pivotal importance in her own time and since, paying attention not only to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but to the full range of her work. A chronology and guides to further reading offer further essential information for scholars and students of this remarkable writer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #667805 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 306 pages

Review
'This is a valuable addition to Wollstonecraft studies, which will also be of interest to scholars of sensibility ...'. Susan Manly, University of St Andrews, Bars Bulletin & Review 'This volume is well put-together, just like the remainder of this collection of volumes that it is a part of ...' Revue de la Societe d'Etudes anglo-americanes des XVII et XVIIIe siecles

Review
"Johnson has assembled 14 essays by the leading scholars in the field to produce one of the most authoritative and wide-ranging studies of Wollstonecraft to date, one that treats not only the famous "Vindication" but also her novels, letters, travel writing, and political and religious though. The collection will prove most useful to upper-division undergraduates and beginning graduate students." Choice novel

About the Author
Claudia L. Johnson is Professor of English at Princeton University. She is author of Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel (1988) and Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s (1995), and is currently working on Raising the Novel, which explores the history of novel studies and canon making from the late eighteenth century until the 1950s, and Jane Austen: Cults and Cultures, which examines the history of Austenian reception, representation, and memorialization as well as her place in the formation of various cultural, national, and even sexual identities.

Customer Reviews

Delightful Scholarship
While reading a library's copy of The Cambridge Companion of Mary Wollstonecraft, I was gripped with a desire to own my own copy and promptly ordered it. Having worked with Wollstonecraft material, I found this collection of articles to provide the most informative and best supported coverage of Wollstonecraft's works and thought I have seen as yet. If you need a good scholarly introduction to Wollstonecraft studies, this is an excellent place to start. Claudia L. Johnson has edited an excellent collection of topical articles.