Reason and female empowerment in Wollstonecraft’s novels.

• 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
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...