Eileen M Hunt

Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child

Political Philosophy in Frankenstein

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, the author 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

• Verlag: Global Center for Resiliency & Wellbeing
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224566
• ISBN-10: 0812224566
• Artikelnr.: 56396641

Autorenporträt

Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and author of Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights and Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family.

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