Portraits of Wollstonecraft

Gloriously readable...This compendium of reaction to the famous radical starts with 18th-century print and image, moving through the canon—Virginia Woolf, poetry by Robert Browning—to contemporary international reception. Cartoons rub shoulders with Oxford lectures in a rich new kind of portraiture of both Wollstonecraft and our changing society. * The Tablet * The most monumental achievement...documents and reflects on Wollstonecraft’s cross-cultural influence on debates about women’s rights over the course of two centuries. * Literature Compass * An important collection that makes significant contributions to our understanding of Wollstonecraft’s influence as a thinker and philosopher. Hunt demonstrates that far from disappearing from the world stage after her death—an assumption made by many Wollstonecraft scholars—her ideas spread worldwide, shaping generations of writers, thinkers, and ordinary people. This is an essential new finding in Wollstonecraft scholarship as it provides evidence of Wollstonecraft’s significance as a political scientist, writer, and philosopher. Hunt demonstrates how Wollstonecraft has played a far larger role in the history of ideas than hitherto acknowledged. * Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Endicott College, USA * It is unique. Rich in discoveries and surprises, this book brings together a multitude of responses to Wollstonecraft as a literary and philosophical figure and of perspectives on her works from her contemporaries in Britain and abroad as well as a variety of authors in the 19th and early 20th century. * Sylvana Tomaselli, Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK *