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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged, with Related Texts
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Description for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged, with Related Texts
Paperback. Editor(s): Barnard, Philip; Shapiro, Stephen. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
This edition features a shrewd, annotated abridgment of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) accompanied by an array of texts that help situate the Vindication in its political, historical, and intellectual contexts. Included are key selections from Wollstonecraft's other writings; from closely related works by Burke, Paine, Godwin, Rousseau, Macaulay, Talleyrand, and Brockden Brown; and from the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and de Gouges' Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen (1791).
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
162
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
199g
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9781603849388
SKU
V9781603849388
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About Mary Wollstonecraft
Philip Barnard is Professor of English, University of Kansas. Stephen Shapiro is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.
Reviews for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged, with Related Texts
A thoughtful and useful abridgement of an essential historical, political, and philosophical text. [Barnard and Shapiro] have managed to preserve the tone and arguments of the original while shedding much of the redundancy and lengthy quotations of external sources that can be off-putting and cumbersome for today's readers. The explanatory footnotes added to the text are helpful without being overbearing. ... Read more