Catherine Packham

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy (eBook, ePUB)

The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009395854
• Artikelnr.: 70914373

Autorenporträt

Catherine Packham is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Vitalism: Bodies, Culture, Politics (2012) and co-editor of Political Economy, Literature and the Formation of Knowledge, 1720-1850 (2018). She was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship and has published widely on Wollstonecraft and eighteenth-century political economy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Mary Wollstonecraft and eighteenth-century political economy;
1. Political economy and commercial society in the 1790s; 2. The engagement
with Burke: contesting the 'natural course of things'; 3. Property,
passions and manners: political economy and the Vindications; 4. Political
economy in revolution: France, free commerce and Wollstonecraft's history
of the French Revolution; 5. Property in political economy: modernity,
individuation, and literary form; 6. Credit and credulity: political
economy, gender, and the sentiments in The Wrongs of Woman; Conclusion.
Imagination, futurity, and the value of things.