Reason and female empowerment in Wollstonecraft’s novels.

This paper will examine how Mary Wollstonecraft uses reason to show that eighteenth-century women have to ability to represent themselves in the literary world and in society. While Wollstonecraft’s political treatise, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) will help readers understand her femi...

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Main Author:	Tan, Yan Xi.
Other Authors:	School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format:	Final Year Project
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42760
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-427602019-12-10T10:58:39Z Reason and female empowerment in Wollstonecraft’s novels. Tan, Yan Xi. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Samara Anne Cahill DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English This paper will examine how Mary Wollstonecraft uses reason to show that eighteenth-century women have to ability to represent themselves in the literary world and in society. While Wollstonecraft’s political treatise, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) will help readers understand her feminist notions, her novels create possibilities for female empowerment. In this paper, Mary Wollstonecraft’s representations of women in her two novels, respectively Mary, A Fiction (1788) and The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria (1798) will be analyzed in greater depth to present her systematic fight for the rights of women. Bachelor of Arts 2011-01-10T05:57:59Z 2011-01-10T05:57:59Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42760 en Nanyang Technological University 33 p. application/pdf
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description	This paper will examine how Mary Wollstonecraft uses reason to show that eighteenth-century women have to ability to represent themselves in the literary world and in society. While Wollstonecraft’s political treatise, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) will help readers understand her feminist notions, her novels create possibilities for female empowerment. In this paper, Mary Wollstonecraft’s representations of women in her two novels, respectively Mary, A Fiction (1788) and The Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria (1798) will be analyzed in greater depth to present her systematic fight for the rights of women.
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Reason and female empowerment in Wollstonecraft’s novels.

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