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The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft
Once viewed solely in relation to the history of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft is now recognised 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. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career. The diverse and searching essays 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 also to the full range of her work across disciplinary boundaries separating philosophy, letters, education, advice, politics, history, religion, sexuality, and feminism itself. A chronology and bibliography offer further essential information for scholars and students of this remarkable writer.
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Austenescape, or, Taking Liberty
With the fictional Lord Pippin and his \"phony war\" in mind, let's turn to the consolation actual lovers of Jane Austen took in thinking about her world during the very real Blitz of the very real World War II. In face of the utter corruption of political language and civil discourse, the ascendancy of \"alternative truth,\" the specter of insurrection here and war abroad, the resurgence and the apparent legitimation of racism and antisemitism and all hate-speech, to say nothing of bee-colony collapse, pandemic, and global warming, along with the social and economic losses all of these cause-all, all of which seem to signify that the world is indeed going to hell in a handbasket-I wonder: what's so bad about escape? A quick look at the OED reveals that escape dates to the fourteenth century and carries no pejorative implication: \"To gain one's liberty by flight; to get free from detention or control, or from an oppressive or irksome condition.\" Another way of asking this question: when we escape to Pride and Prejudice-for this novel has preeminently been a site of escape-what might we be escaping to? I used to think that I would never care to escape to Austen's world because life is so precarious for her heroines, some of whom verge on desolation.
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Equivocal beings
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions. Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, \"equivocal beings.\"
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Equivocal Beings
In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically motivated to represent authority figures as men of feeling, but denied women comparable authority by representing their feelings as inferior, pathological, or criminal. Focusing on Mary Wollstonecraft, Ann Radcliffe, Frances Burney, and Jane Austen, whose popular works culminate and assail this tradition, Claudia L. Johnson examines the legacy male sentimentality left for women of various political persuasions.
Demonstrating the interrelationships among politics, gender, and feeling in the fiction of this period, Johnson provides detailed readings of Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, and Burney, and treats the qualities that were once thought to mar their work—grotesqueness, strain, and excess—as indices of ideological conflict and as strategies of representation during a period of profound political conflict. She maintains that the reactionary reassertion of male sentimentality as a political duty displaced customary gender roles, rendering women, in Wollstonecraft's words, \"equivocal beings.\"
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\Let me make the novels of a country\: Barbauld's The British Novelists (1810/1820)
Johnson discusses whether Anna Barbauld is referring to the composition of novels or to the editing of novels in collections such as her own in \"The British Novelists; with an Essay and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical.\" In Barbauld's formulation, novelistic canons supplement, critique, or contest political systems rather than displace or stand as alternatives to them.
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F. R. Leavis: The \Great Tradition\ of the English Novel and the Jewish Part
F. R. Leavis is typically seen as a powerful agent in the formulation of both an imperial canon and of reading practices that promote Englishness as universally human. Johnson reassesses \"The Great Tradition\" by stressing its non-English constituents and by pondering Leavis' three attempts to accommodate George Eliot's Daniel Deronda,\" a novel that he could neither live without nor live with.
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