Brenda Ayres

Becoming Wollstonecraft

The Interconnection of Her Life and Works

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Women's Literature
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781032649399
• ISBN-10: 1032649399
• Artikelnr.: 70016158

Autorenporträt

Dr Brenda Ayres has been teaching British literature for forty years and currently teaches graduate courses online for Liberty University. To date, she has published 75 books, most of them scholarly. The latest are Religion and Wollstonecraft (2024), The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism (2024), and The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Part 1:
Chapter 1: The Oldest Wollstonecraft Daughter: Becoming a Feminist
Chapter 2: "Misery Haunts this House": Rescuing Bess
Chapter 3: Wollstonecrafts' Melancholy and Madness
Chapter 4: Becoming the Educator
Chapter 5: A Mother of Much, Many, and More or Less
Part 2:
Chapter 6: "A Sexless Mind," Overstrained Sensibility, and Sapphism
Chapter 7: Melting in and out of Love
Chapter 8: Around Johnson's Table
Chapter 9: Barrier Love and Gilbert Imlay
Chapter 10: Wollstonecraft and Lucretia
Part 3:
Chapter 11: Utopian Dreamer, Topographical Untruths, and Imlay's Literal
Lies
Chapter 12: Lone Traveler on the High Seas: "Lost in a Sea of Thoughts"
Chapter 13: "Barren Blooming" in Britain but Germinating in America
Chapter 14: "I am Buried Alive": Wollstonecraft's Afterbirth of Rights of
Woman in Britain
Chapter 15: "A Thing of Shreds and Patches": Wollstonecraft's Postmortem