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Series Information: Routledge Literary Sourcebooks
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminism. In this Routledge Literary Sourcebook, Adriana Craciun provides the ideal starting point for students new to Wollstonecraft's revolutionary work. Key materials 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. With substantial introductory materials throughout and extensive annotation, this is the essential guide to a key literary and political text.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with
annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers
holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin
camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution,
Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.
In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an
important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and
objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from
India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of
authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the
full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century,
raising crucial questions about notions of property and invention,
homely and commercial lives. The book also includes a series of
well-illustrated exhibits, a startling and provocative assemblage
of objects from the Enlightenment world, each accompanied by expert
commentaries. The collection of essays and exhibits is the result
of collaborative debate by scholars from Europe and north America,
who have together worked on the cross-disciplinary importance of
material history in making sense of how past society was
fundamentally transformed through the world of goods.
The protagonist of Charlotte Dacre's best known novel, Zofloya, or
the Moor (1806) is unique in women's Gothic and Romantic
literature, and has more in common with the heroines of Sade or
M.G. Lewis than with those of Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith or
Jane Austen. No heroine of Radcliffe or Austen could exult, as
Victoria does in this novel, that "there is certainly a
pleasure...in the infliction of prolonged torment." The sexual
desires and ambition of Dacre's protagonist, Victoria, drive her to
seduce, torture and murder. Victoria is inspired to greater
criminal and illicit acts by a seductive Lucifer, disguised as a
Moor, before she too is plunged into an abyss by her demon lover.
The text's unusual evocations of the female body and feminine
subject are of particular interest in the context of the history of
sexuality and of the body; after embarking on a series of violent
crimes, Victoria's body actually begins to grow stronger and
decidedly more masculine. Among the documents included as
appendices to this volume are a selection of Dacre's poetry and
excerpts from Bienville's Nymphomania, a medical treatise of the
time aimed at a lay audience that focuses largely on the dangerous
powers of women's imagination; inspired by improper novels, it is
alleged that women may plunge into madness, violence and death-much
as does the protagonist of Zofloya herself.
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