Eileen M. Hunt

Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child

Political Philosophy in Frankenstein

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Produktbeschreibung

In Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, Eileen Hunt Botting contends that Frankenstein is a profound work of speculative fiction designed to engage a radical moral and political question: do children have rights?

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Produktdetails

• Haney Foundation Series
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9780812249620
• ISBN-10: 0812249623
• Artikelnr.: 47974766

Autorenporträt

Eileen M. Hunt is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Artificial Life After Frankenstein and Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political Philosophy in "Frankenstein," both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Welcome to the Creature Double Feature
Introduction. Frankenstein and the Question of Children's Rights
Chapter 1. The Specter of the Stateless Orphan from Hobbes to Shelley
Chapter 2. Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of Children's Rights
Chapter 3. Shelley's Thought Experiments on the Rights of the Child
Chapter 4. Three Applications of Shelley's Thought Experiments: The Rights
of Disabled, Stateless, and Posthuman Children
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments