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Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Mary Wollstonecraft's watershed contribution to theories of women's human rights and her international reception by both Western and non-Western intellectuals has ensured she continues to shape contemporary human rights debates around the world. Bringing together over 100 individual responses to Wollstonecraft's life and work, Portraits of Wollstonecraft documents her international and cross-cultural reception from the late 18th-century to the early 21st-century. Reflecting on over two centuries of responses to her political ideas, writing, and philosophy, it counters the persistent myth that she ceased to be read in the aftermath of the publication of her husband William Godwin's scandalous posthumous Memoirs of her life in 1798. Beginning with her earliest portraiture and the first reviews of her published writings from the late 1780s, Volume I traces her emergence as an international public figure of women's rights in her life, work, and philosophical, literary, and artistic reception throughout Britain, Ireland, Continental Europe, North and South America, and across the British Empire and its former colonies from Jamaica to India to South Africa. Volume II focuses on Wollstonecraft's posthumous philosophical, literary, and artistic reception, especially within modern strands of feminism, by assembling responses from China, Japan, and South Korea as well as writing by Mary Shelley, Emma Goldman, Ruth Benedict, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Susan Moller Okin, Barbara Johnson, Martha Nussbaum, and Amartya Sen that discusses her theories of virtue, love, gender, education, and rights. Bringing to light many forgotten accounts and images of Wollstonecraft, pieces by major thinkers from across the history of philosophy, and 31 annotated illustrations showing her development into a feminist icon, Portraits of Wollstonecraft achieves what no other work on Wollstonecraft has yet to do. This comprehensive collection charts the depth and breadth of her legacies for philosophy, political theory, ethics, literature, art, and feminism on a global scale.

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Author:   Eileen M. Hunt (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   1.506kg
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9781350035881

ISBN 10:   1350035882
Publication Date:   20 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
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VOLUME I: Portraiture, Reception and Biographies, 1785 to 1913 Preface: Charting Wollstonecraft's Global Reception Editorial Policy Part I: Public Sightings, 1785-1804 Chapter 1. The Earliest Portraiture of Wollstonecraft, 1785-1804 1. C. 1787-92. Portrait by John Keenan 2. C. 1785-90. Photograph (1936) of oval miniature by James Sowerby and C. 1785-90. Photograph (1937) of rectangular miniature by James Sowerby 3. C. 1790-91. Portrait by John Opie 4. C. 1791. Portrait by John Williamson 5. 1791. Frontispiece by William Blake for Original Stories from Real Life 6. 1796. Engraving by William Ridley 7. 1797. Portrait by John Opie 8. 1797. Engraving by James Heath and 1798 and Engraving by John Chapman 9. 1802. Engraving by Roy 10. 1804. Copy of 1797 Opie by John Keenan Chapter 2. Her International Reception in Print, 1787-1797 11. 1787. Book review of Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (London) 12. 1788. Book review of Mary, a Fiction (London) 13. 1788. Book review of Original Stories from Real Life (London) 14. 1790. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Men (London) 15. 1791. Newspaper editorial on A Vindication of the Rights of Men (Kingston, Jamaica) 16. 1792. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) 17. 1792. Book review of the first French edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Madrid) 18. 1792. On Modesty, excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) 19. 1792. Thomas Taylor's A Vindication of the Rights of Brutes (London) 20. 1793. Book review of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paris) 21. 1793. Christian Salzmann's Preface to the first German Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Schnepfenthal) 22. 1794. Ann Harker's Salutatory Oration at the Young Ladies' Academy (Philadelphia) 23. 1795. John Henry Colls's Poetical Epistle Addressed to Mary Wollstonecraft (London) 24. 1796. The Lost First Dutch Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Amsterdam), by Myriam Everard 25. 1796. Book review of Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (London) 26. 1797. Newspaper advertisement for William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) Part II: Global Afterlives, 1798-1913 Chapter 3 Biographies in English, 1798-1884 27. 1798. William Godwin's Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) 28. 1798. Priscilla Wakefield's diary entry on Godwin's Memoirs (London) 29. 1800. Mary Hays's Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft (London) 30. 1803. Anonymous, A defence of the character and conduct of the late Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (London) 31. 1831. John Knowles's The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli (London) 32. 1833. Anonymous, A Brief Sketch of the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (New York) 33. 1840. William Hamilton Drummond's Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan (Dublin) 34. 1854. William Linton, woodcut engraving of Mary Wollstonecraft for The English Republic (Brantwood, England) 35. 1876. Charles Kegan Paul's William Godwin: His Friends and Contemporaries (London) 36. 1876. Sara A. Underwood's Heroines of Freethought (New York) 37. 1879. Charles Kegan Paul's Letters to Imlay, with Prefatory Memoir (London) 38. 1884. Elizabeth Robins Pennell's Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (London) Chapter 4 International Perspectives, 1798-1913 39. 1798. Pierre-Louis Roederer's Miscellanies: Of Two New Novels (Paris) 40. 1799. Hipolito Jose da Costa's Diario da minha viagem para Filadelfia (Long Island Sound) 41. 1799. Translator's Note to the first Swedish edition of Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Stockholm) 42. 1800. Richard Polwhele's The Unsex'd Females (New York) 43. 1801-02 Jorgen Borch's first Danish edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Kiobenhavn) by Arman Teymouri Niknam 44. 1805. Domenico Antonio Filippi's Italian translations from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Godwin's Memoirs (Vienna), by Serena Vantin 45. 1818. Hannah Mather Crocker's Observations on the Real Rights of Women (Boston) 46. 1827. Jose da Silva Lisboa, Diario da Camara dos Senadores do Imperiodo Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) 47. 1832-1853. Nisia Floresta Brasileira Augusta and the Public Reception of Wollstonecraft in Brazil, by Charlotte Hammond Matthews 48. 1836. Gustav von Schlabrendorf's Mary Wollstonecraft (Hechingen) 49. 1859. Gustav Klemm, Die Frauen (Dresden) 50. 1866. Lucretia Mott's remarks delivered at the 11th National Woman's Rights Convention (New York) 51. 1885. Marie Catfauminges de La Forge's 'Uma Educadora' (Santa Catarina, Brazil), by Charlotte Hammond Matthews 52. 1889. A Difficult Vindication: Olive Schreiner's Wollstonecraft, by Carolyn Burdett 53. 1889. Olive Schreiner's Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (Cape Town) 54. 1891. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Prefatory Note to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Budapest) 55. 1899. Bertha Pappenheim, translator's introduction to the second German edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Dresden and Leipzig) 56. 1904. Cover art, frontispiece, and translator's preface by Anna Holmova, for the first Czech edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Prague) 57. 1901-1913. Elvira's Lopez's El Movimiento Feminista and La Nacion's El Movimiento Sufragistra (Buenos Aires) VOLUME II: Literary Depictions and Global Feminisms, 1801-2020 Part III Making an International Feminist Icon, 1801-2020 Chapter 5. Literary and Graphic Depictions in English, 1801-2015 58. 1801. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's poem The Vision of Liberty (London) 59. 1803. William Blake's poem Mary (London) 60. 1805. Equality of the Sexes, frontispiece to John Corry's novella, Memoirs of Francis Goodwin (London) 61. 1831. Mary Shelley's Introduction to Frankenstein (London) 62. 1845. Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Boston) 63. 1855. George Eliot's essay Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft (London) 64. 1862. Mrs. Tamar Davis's poem Mary Wollstonecraft (Boston) 65. 1877. Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London) 66. 1883. Robert Browning's poem Mary Wollstonecraft and Fuseli (London) 67. 1922. Josephine Peabody's play Portrait of Mrs. W. (Boston) 68. 1929. G.E.G. Catlin's introduction to the Everyman edition of The Rights of Woman and The Subjection of Women (London and New York) 69. 1932. Virginia Woolf's essay Mary Wollstonecraft (London) 70. 1954. Pamela Frankau's introduction to the Everyman edition of The Rights of Woman and The Subjection of Women (London) 71. 1967. Charles W. Hagelman, Jr.'s introduction to the Norton Edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York) 72. 1972. David Levine cartoon of Wollstonecraft for The New York Review of Books (New York) 73. 1974. Cover art for Richard Cobb's book review of Claire Tomalin's The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft in The Times Literary Supplement (London) 74. 1975. Miriam Brody Kramnick's introduction to the Penguin Pelican edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York and Harmondsworth) 75. 1976. David Levine cartoon of Wollstonecraft for The New York Review of Books (New York) 76. 1982. Barbara Johnson's review essay, My Monster/ My Self (Ithaca, New York) 77. 2002. Women's Graphic Collective poster of Wollstonecraft-Shelley (Chicago) 78. 2009. Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey's Mary Wollstonecraft! comic in ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! (New York) 79. 2015. Claire Robertson's prototype illustration for Jordan Stratford's The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency series (New York) Chapter 6. Global Feminisms, 1891-2020 80. 1891. Millicent Fawcett's introduction to a centennial edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (London) 81. 1893. Voltairine de Cleyre's poem Mary Wollstonecraft (Philadelphia) 82. 1898. Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough's A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman (London and Madras) 83. 1908. Mary Lowndes's Mary Wollstonecraft suffrage banner (London) 84. 1911. Emma Goldman's lecture, Mary Wollstonecraft, Her Tragic Life and Passionate Struggle for Freedom (New York) 85. 1914-17. Ruth Benedict, manuscript chapter on Mary Wollstonecraft (New York) 86. 1915. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN IN BOOKS, illustrated cover page of The New York Times Review of Books (New York) 87. 1949. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (Paris) 88. 1963. Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (New York) 89. 1970. Susan Moller (Okin)'s B. Phil. chapter on Wollstonecraft (Oxford) 90. 1974. Gionata's Italian translation of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman for the Anarchist Journal Volonta (Milan), by Serena Vantin 91. 1979. Judy Chicago's Wollstonecraft Table Runner for the art installation, The Dinner Party (New York) 92. 1980. Cover art for the first Japanese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Tokyo) 93. 1980. Translator Shirai Takako's commentary on the first Japanese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Tokyo) 94. 1986. Martha Nussbaum's book review, Women's Lot, in The New York Review of Books (New York) 95. 1992. Translator's Preface to the first Chinese edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Beijing) 96. 1997. Translator Kawatsu Masae's afterword to the first Japanese edition of Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman (Tokyo) 97. 2004. Amartya Sen's keynote address, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary! at the 13th annual conference of the International Association for Feminist Economics (Oxford) 98. 2011. Translator Moon Suhyo?n's introduction to and commentary on the 2011 Korean edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Seoul) 99. 2013. Stewy's street art, Mary Wollstonecraft (London) 100. 2014. Translator Son Yongmi's preface to the 2014 Korean edition of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Seoul) 101. 2017. Merrily Grashin's cartoon, Bloody Mary Woll Stout Craft, in The Paris Review (New York) 102.2020. Maggi Hambling, Statue for Wollstonecraft (London) NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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[A] gloriously readable, two-volume compendium of reaction to the famous radical. * The Tablet *

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Eileen Hunt Botting is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

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