1st Edition

Wollstonecraft's Ghost The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period

By Andrew McInnes Copyright 2017
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir of his wife, and Wollstonecraft's reception in the early nineteenth century. McInnes positions... Read more


Contents



Acknowledgements



Introduction: I’m Not a Female Philosopher, But…



Chapter 1. Imagining Mary: Representations of Wollstonecraft in the Works of Mary Hays and William Godwin



Chapter 2. The Death of the Feminist in Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray, Elizabeth Hamilton’s Modern Philosophers and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda



Chapter 3. England in Eighteen Hundred and Fourteen: The State of the Nation in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer and Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park



Chapter 4. Hideous Progeny: The Female Philosopher in Gothic, Historical and Silver Fork Fiction



Afterword: The Afterlives of the Female Philosopher



Bibliography

Biography

Andrew McInnes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill University, UK.