Mary Wollstonecraft and Maria Edgeworth 's Modern Ladies

1981 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Topliss
Keyword(s):  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Maria Edgeworth

The Innovative Animals of Children’s Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-108
Author(s):  
Jane Spencer
Keyword(s):  
William Blake ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Maria Edgeworth ◽  
Animal Minds ◽  
Anna Letitia Barbauld ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Children’S Fiction ◽  
Children's Fiction ◽  
Animal Subjectivity

This chapter discusses the animals of early children’s fiction, showing that their didactic and affective purposes are rooted in the period’s conception of childhood as a time of special closeness to animal being. Children’s writers teach children to grow away from animality, but also use animals to encourage the child reader’s sympathy. The fiction’s message of kindness to animals depends both on reminding children of feelings they share with nonhuman creatures and on explaining human superiority. The chapter argues that children’s writers make a distinct contribution to a developing literature of animal subjectivity. They make significant innovations in narrative techniques for representing nonhuman viewpoints, not only in their use of animal narrators but in third-person narrative access to non-linguistic animal minds. Writers include Dorothy Kilner, Thomas Day, Sarah Trimmer, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Dorothy Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and Edward Augustus Kendall.

scholarly journals Literature for Children

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Manly
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
William Blake ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Maria Edgeworth ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Educational Theories ◽  
The Future ◽  
Anna Barbauld

The child is often imagined in the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth as a source of creative energies and of hope for the future of humanity, as well as symbolizing a return to original naturalness. But these ideas about childhood were not peculiar to the Lake poets: they have their origin in the politicized educational theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as in Joseph Priestley’s revolutionary rhetoric and the children’s literature that emerged from this tradition. Variously combining these influences, a new, often realist children’s literature written by Anna Barbauld, John Aikin, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Maria Edgeworth, and William Godwin sought to revolutionize the forms and content of earlier books for children. The new children’s literature of the 1790s and early 1800s envisaged a rising generation of socially engaged thinkers capable of transforming society.

Presentación

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (149) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Víctor Gayol
Keyword(s):  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Olympe De Gouges ◽  
Sobre Todo

El proceso de transformación de los roles de género ha tenido diversos puntos de quiebre a lo largo de historia, sobre todo a partir de la intensa discusión sobre los derechos del individuo que desató la Ilustración y, luego con mayor fuerza, la revolución francesa. La reivindicación de los derechos de las mujeres, imaginar y movilizarse en contra de la condición femenina de subordinación en la sociedad, fue cobrando forma con mayor fuerza desde que Olympe de Gouges y Mary Wollstonecraft tomaron la pluma.

Mary Wollstonecraft and Freedom as Independence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Halldenius
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Moral Subject ◽  
The Individual

This chapter demonstrates how Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97) uses feminist principles to modify and adapt the republican ideal of freedom as the absence of domination or dependence. It shows that, according to Wollstonecraft, freedom consists in the secure entitlement to act in accordance with the dictates of reason—a freedom that depends upon the possession of a certain social standing and the absence of a dominating master. Crucially, according to this chapter, freedom from domination is relational: it bestows a special status on the moral subject in relation to others. Freedom from subjugation thus gives the individual a certain empowerment, or certain entitlement, with respect to other members of society. The chapter ends by showing how Wollstonecraft takes this idea to its logical feminist conclusion: a call for the equal rights of men and women in civil society.

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