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Mary Wollstonecraft and political economy
the feminist critique of commercial modernity
1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : illustrations.
"Why was Wollstonecraft's landmark feminist work, the Vindication of the Rights of Woman, categorised as a work of political economy when it was first published? Taking this question as a starting point, Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy gives a compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of the material, moral, social, and psychological conditions of commercial modernity. Offering thorough analysis of Wollstonecraft's major writings -- including her two Vindications, her novels, her history of the French Revolution, and her travel writing -- this is the only book-length study to situate Wollstonecraft in the context of the political economic thought of her time. It shows Wollstonecraft as an economic as much as a political radical, whose critique of the emerging economic orthodoxies of her time anticipates later Romantic thinkers"--
Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft and eighteenth-century political economy -- Political economy and commercial society in the 1790s -- The engagement with Burke : contesting the 'natural course of things' -- Property, passions and manners : political economy and the vindications -- Political economy in revolution : France, free commerce and Wollstonecraft's History of the French Revolution -- Property in political economy : modernity, individuation, and literary form -- Credit and credulity : political economy, gender, and the sentiments in The wrongs of woman -- Conclusion: Imagination, futurity, and the value of things.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Catherine Packham is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at the University of Sussex.
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024