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Kirkley, Laura Anne. "Mary Wollstonecraft and the translation of Europe." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611641.
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Bahar, Saba. "Mary Wollstonecraft's social and aesthetic philosophy : "an Eve to please me" /." Basingstoke [etc.] : Palgrave, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001054887.html.
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Wolter, Ingrid-Charlotte. "Mary Wollstonecraft und Erziehung eine Erziehungskonzeption zur Entkulturation." Trier Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2006. http://d-nb.info/98872930X/04.
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Stanley, Michelle Joelene. "Mary Wollstonecraft : forerunner of positive liberty and communitarianism." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44246.
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This thesis explores the extent to which Mary Wollstonecraft can be associated with the philosophical conversation about liberty, in which John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Stuart Mill are familiar names. Wollstonecraft was a woman whose appearance in this discourse was well-known during her lifetime; however, due to her unorthodox lifestyle and her gender, she was discredited after her death. My research corrects this omission by placing her within the canon as a philosopher of liberty. In particular, an analysis of her A Vindication of the Rights of Men, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution, and Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in light of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor’s work, reveals Wollstonecraft’s position as an early proponent of what comes to be called positive liberty and communitarianism. Positive liberty, loosely defined, is the idea that freedom requires more than the absence of restraint; there are certain actions that government and society need to take to ensure citizens’ freedom. Communitarianism, which proposes that true freedom may only be found in a certain form of society, is closely linked with ideas of positive liberty. Indeed, Wollstonecraft’s call for national public education and the restructuring of the property system, in conjunction with her recognition of the public and political nature of the ‘private’ family, is evidence that not only was she a proponent of positive liberty and communitarianism, but her philosophy was ahead of its time.
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Wanklyn, Wendy. "The feminisms of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Thompson." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.290948.
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Ross, Elizabeth Ann. "Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen - opponents or allies?" Thesis, University of Reading, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315361.
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Tauchert, Ashley. "Mary Wollstonecraft in her time and our time." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264200.
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Fontes, Janaina Gomes. "A voz materna : Mary Wollstonecraft e Michèle Roberts." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UnB, 2008. http://repositorio.unb.br/handle/10482/2681.
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A experiência da maternidade tem suscitado complexos sentimentos desde os mitos existentes nas primeiras sociedades, que comparavam a capacidade reprodutiva das mulheres às forças da natureza. Durante os séculos, tal comparação foi distorcida pela sociedade patriarcal para satisfazer seus interesses, causando a opressão e o sofrimento de milhares de mulheres. Esse processo está presente também na literatura, que é capaz de refletir e perpetuar essas distorções ou desconstruí-las, contribuindo para novas visões dessa complexa experiência. Neste trabalho, analiso a representação da maternidade em romances de autoria feminina, mais precisamente, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman e Mary, a Fiction, de Mary Wollstonecraft (escritora inglesa do século XVIII), e Fair Exchange, de Michèle Roberts (escritora inglesa contemporânea), auxiliada por exemplos em diversos textos teóricos de como o papel da mãe foi construído ao longo do tempo e pela contribuição dos estudos feministas para a desconstrução dos mitos patriarcais sobre a maternidade. _________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT
The experience of motherhood has roused complex feelings since the myths existing in the first societies, wich used to compare women’s reproductive capability to the forces of nature. Throughout the centuries, such comparison was distorted by the patriarchal society in order to satisfy its interests, causing the oppression and the suffering of thousands of women. This process is also present in literature, which is able to reflect and perpetuate these distortions or deconstruct them, contributing to new views on this complex experience. In this work I analyze the representation of motherhood in novels written by women, more precisely, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman and Mary, a Fiction, by Mary Wollstonecraft (eighteenth-century English writer) and Fair Exchange, by Michèle Roberts (comtemporary English writer), assisted by examples in different texts of how the mother’s role has been constructed throughout time and by the contributions of the feminist studies for the deconstruction of patriarchal myths about motherhood.
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Et-Taousy, Mohammed. "L'Education féminine chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau et Mary Wollstonecraft." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040044.
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Gourdon, Stéphanie. "Normes et formes dans les écrits de Mary Wollstonecraft." Aix-Marseille 1, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009AIX10100.
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Dans les années 1970, la critique littéraire occidentale, mue par des prises de parti ancrés dans l’évolution des mœurs, a fait redécouvrir Mary Wollstonecraft en la présentant comme la « mère du féminisme ». L’analyse des écrits composant une œuvre hétérogène a souvent été laissée de côté au profit d’une approche idéologique. L’étude considère au contraire le système générique des textes en faisant l’hypothèse que sa complexité, marquée par une pratique de l’hybridation, résulte d’une démarche expérimentale. L’objet d’une telle stratégie serait de mettre à distance les modèles canoniques et partant, de créer une nouvelle forme d’écriture. Les mutations socio-culturelles du XVIIIe siècle sont propices à l’émancipation et de la femme et de l’esthétique de l’œuvre. Aussi faut-il considérer ce que le fonctionnement des textes dit de la femme et si Mary Wollstonecraft parvient à relever les défit qu’elle se lance.
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Chaney, Eve Christine. ""The aesthetic of lived life" from Wollstonecraft to Mill /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9466.
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McDougall, Charlotte. "Historicising the Feminist: A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft's Political and Discursive Contexts." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2355.
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This thesis has investigated the life and publications of Mary Wollstonecraft. The thesis is divided in to three chapters the first chapter explores the political and social context of late Eighteenth century England in which Wollstonecraft lived the majority of her life. It then moves on to discuss the 'Revolution Controversy' and Wollstonecraft's contribution to that debate. Giving specific attention to A Vindication of the Rights of Man as it is Wollstonecraft's first political publication, and was the first published response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Without first publishing A Vindication of the Rights of Man, Wollstonecraft could not have published her most famous work. Next the second chapter investigates Eighteenth century education, and how Wollstonecraft ideas on changing the nature of education would help reform society in her eyes. Education was recognized as having special significance by many Enlightenment philosophers, this thesis looks at the contribution of John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau to educational theory, and they ways in which Wollstonecraft responded to their ideas. In the final chapter the inclusive nature of Wollstonecraft's gender theory is considered. Wollstonecraft is widely recognised as publishing what became for many the founding document of modern western feminism. What is given less recognition is that Wollstonecraft was in fact interested in broad social reform, similar to many other Enlightenment philosophers, Wollstonecraft's social theory included changing education and socialisation for both women and men. Society could not be reformed without changing social and educational practices with regard to both II men and women. Wollstonecraft furthered the contemporary debate on the rights of man to include the rights of woman. Wollstonecraft criticised the unnatural distinctions of gender and class, setting out in both Vindications the negative consequences for the character of both men and women. Another less recognised aspect of Wollstonecraft's philosophy which this thesis has highlighted is the vital role that religion played, and its implications for her ideas. This aspect of Wollstonecraft's thought has tended to be over looked by many Wollstonecraft scholars, who try to place Wollstonecraft in some kind of political and social continuum which I think misses the revolutionary and far sighted nature of Wollstonecraft's philosophy. In taking a historicist approach or understanding to Wollstonecraft, by reading Wollstonecraft in the terms of the political and social environment of the late eighteenth century, it becomes easier to understand the radical nature of Wollstonecraft's ideas, and the personal hardships she faced as both a woman and a member of the lower middle class.
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Smith, Abigail M. "The reception of the life and work of Mary Wollstonecraft in the early American republic." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=26523.
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Mettifogo, Mariarosa. "Feminists between theory and practice : Mary Wollstonecraft, George Sand, and Neera /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Hivet, Christine. "Roman féminin et condition féminine de Mary Wollstonecraft à Mary Shelley." Paris 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA030108.
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A une epoque ou florissait le roman feminin et ou la condition feminine posait des problemes de plus en plus aigus, mary wollstonecraft choisit d'exprimer dans le roman les revendications de a vindication of the rights of woman. Oeuvres pleines d'horreur et de pathos, mary et the wrongs of woman reclamaient ainsi pour la femme le droit au divorce et a l'amour. Certaines de ses contemporaines eurent le courage de suivre mary wollstonecraft et de faire elles aussi un sombre tableau de la realite de la condition feminine. Toutes les femmes etaient cependant loin de partager cette sympathie pour mary wollstonecraft. Detestant tout ce que representait cette derniere, des auteurs comme hannah more mirent donc en scene des heroines wollstonecraftiennes destinees a etre punies par la justice poetique. Le statu quo faisait en revanche l'objet de tous leurs eloges au prix meme de la dynamique romanesque. Une generation plus tard, mary shelley publiait frankenstein. Apparemment sans importance, la femme n'etait cependant pas absente de l'oeuvre de la fille de mary wollstonecraft. Peut-etre est-ce en partie a cette indirection que mary shelley dut sont succes litteraire. D'autres romancieres parvinrent a faire reconnaitre plus ou moins vite leur talent, telles fanny burney, maria edgeworth, ann radcliffe ou jane austen. Si elles aussi s'en remirent a la strategie de l'indirection, leur succes n'en constitua pas moins un grand pas en avant pour le sexe femininAt a time when women's fiction was flourishing and when the condition of woman caused increasingly acute problems, mary wollstonecraft chose to express in the novel the same message as in a vindication of the rights of woman. Works which were full of horror and pathos, mary and the wrongs of woman promoted the right to divorce and love for women. Some of ther contemporaries had the courage to follow in her steps and like her to portray a sombre picture of a woman's life. However, not all women were sympathetic towards mary wollstonecraft's views. Hating everything which she stood for, some authors like hannah more created wollstonecraftian anti-heroines who were destined to be punished by poetic justice. On the other hand, they were full of praise for the status quo, even at the expense of the dynamics of their novel. A generation later, mary shelley published frankenstein. Apparently without importance, woman is however not absent from the works of mary wollstonecraft's daughter. Perhaps mary shelley owes her success partly to this indirection. Other novelists, such as fanny burney, maria edgeworth, ann radcliffe or jane austen, managed to have their talent more or less quickly recognised. If they as well adopted the strategy of indirection, their success however was a significant step forward for the female sex
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Knutsson, Emma. "Wollstonecraft's Mary and Maria: Creating Feminist Propaganda through Fiction." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-27164.
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This essay attempts to define Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary: A Fiction and Maria or The Wrongs of Woman as early feminist propaganda from its historical perspective. Initially, feministic values as well as propaganda are connected to the eighteenth century with the help of contemporary scholars. These theories are then applied on Wollstonecraft’s Mary: A Fiction and Maria or the Wrongs of Woman, in order to establish these as propaganda. The conclusion reached is that Wollstonecraft had a political and feminist aim when writing her novels as there are many similarities between Mary: A Fiction and Maria or The Wrongs of Woman and her political text A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Thus, it is possible to regard Mary: A Fiction and Maria or The Wrongs of Woman as early feminist propaganda.
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Rudland, Sophie. "Faith, feeling and gender in the writing of Hartley, Wollstonecraft and Blake." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/62035/.
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This thesis examines David Hartley’s Observations on Man (1749) and elucidates how Hartley’s mechanical approach to mind, his conception of emotion, and the religious status he awards the body were newly relevant after 1791. In this way it identifies a ‘Hartlean culture’ within the Romantic period and seeks to explore how such an intellectual climate influenced the radical writers William Blake (1757–1827) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797). Blake and Wollstonecraft were acquainted with the famous bookseller Joseph Johnson, who republished Observations on Man in various forms and versions between 1775 and 1801. They also had an association with Johnson’s circle; the Hartlean concepts found throughout their work evidence Hartley’s latent popularity within intellectual culture, as well as the writers’ engagement with contemporary philosophical ideas. I propose that the renewed curiosity in Hartley during the 1790s reveals a specific religious and revolutionary culture wherein non-conformist views about Christianity and new ideas about the body, emotion and women flourished. Such a cultural moment renders Hartley a particularly important figure for debate since he integrated progressive values about equality and faith alongside advancing understanding of anatomy and mind. Hartley identified how God and happiness could be found physically within each person. He did this by combining a complex theory of vibrations and theory of association, where the body and mind functioned mechanically through a person’s feelings of pleasure and pain. These feelings manifested as physical vibrations and eventually led every person to desire goodness until finally, they can become ‘Godlike’ themselves. Hartley’s amalgamation of Christian and new theoretical concepts appealed to Blake and Wollstonecraft, and was much unlike the approach of Joseph Priestley who abridged Observations in 1775 to promote a wholly ‘scientific’ text. In this way, we can see resonances between Hartley, Blake and Wollstonecraft, even if they existed in different cultural contexts. In rethinking Blake and Wollstonecraft through Hartley, I offer new insights into their feminism. In particular I attend to how Hartlean culture enabled these writers to re-imagine gender and emotion: Wollstonecraft reinstates the female experience back into Hartlean concepts in order to promote women’s emotional potential and what she understands as the special power of the female-female bond. Blake responds to both Wollstonecraft and Hartley with his elevation of the feminine, one that envisions new potential for both sexes, emotionally and spiritually. In both cases, the writers share a fascination for the image of the female saviour, and they use terminology and concepts found in Hartley’s work to communicate their views. In being attentive to the shared vocabulary and ideas of these three writers’ works, this thesis highlights the importance of David Hartley and Hartlean culture for the field of Romantic Studies. It also illuminates Observations on Man as a vital contribution to the intellectual context of the 1790s.
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Kammas, Amina. "Amid Rebellion and Conformity : the case of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emmeline Pankhurst." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019MON30061.
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Mary Wollstonecraft et Emmeline Pankhurst ont joué un rôle important dans la lutte pour les droits des femmes. Elles ont fait de l’écriture et du militantisme politique un moyen de lutte contre les injustices subies par les femmes. La plupart des historiens se sont concentrés sur les revendications révolutionnaires portées par les deux féministes. Cette recherche a au contraire pour dessein d’explorer leur utilisation de la "conformité stratégique" pour faire avancer leurs revendications émancipatrices. Il s’agit d’examiner la manière dont les deux féministes se sont conformées de manière stratégique à certaines notions de moralité, de statut matrimonial, de maternité et de féminité, afin d’ atténuer le radicalisme de leurs revendications et de leurs actions, et du même coup, discréditer les accusations de leurs critiques. Cette recherche vise par ailleurs à évaluer l’efficacité de la conformité comme moyen de lutte émancipatrice des deux féministes et à démontrer que la conformité stratégique constitue un instrument politique tout aussi important que la rébellionMary Wollstonecraft and Emmeline Pankhurst played a leading role in the fight for women’s rights, the former through writing and the latter through political activism. While most historians have focused on the revolutionary claims and means that Wollstonecraft and Pankhurst used in their struggle for women’s rights, my research aims to explore their use of ‘strategic conformity’ to further advance their emancipatory claims. It investigates how the two feminists strategically conformed to certain notions of morality, wifehood, motherhood and femininity so as to soften their radical claims and means, and hence discredit their critics’ accusations. Besides, this research attempts to assess the efficiency of the two feminists’ strategy of conformity by examining the contemporary reception of their ideas and actions. Eventually, this research stresses “strategic conformity” as an equally significant and efficient political means as rebellion
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Varenne, Caroline. "Ordre et subversion : la vie et l'écriture de Mary Shelley." Saint-Etienne, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003STET2079.
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L'identité de Mary Shelley, fille et femme d'écrivains, s'est naturellement construite autour de la lecture et de l'écriture. On rencontre dans son oeuvre trois formes de subversion : 1°) celle des idéologies, sous la forme d'une reprise des théories et des thèmes radicaux de son entourage, théories qu'elle va discrètement subvertir à son tour ; 2°) une subversion de la nature (immortalité, monstruosité, inceste) qui traduit l'angoisse de Mary vis-à-vis de la maternité, son désir de détruire les institutions oppressives de la société patriarcale, ainsi qu'un désir de subversion de la morale et de la religion, deux instruments de la subordination des femmes par les hommes ; 3°) une subversion des conventions littéraires, caractéristique de l'écriture féminine. Ses romans, souvent inclassables ou hors normes, subvertissent la notion même de genre, même si son style très littéraire reste conventionnel. Ses écrits personnels témoignent de son désir constant de se définir comme un auteurMary Shelley, born and later married to celebrated writers, constructed her identity around the activities of reading and writing. Three forms of subversion can be found in her work : 1°) the subversion of ideologies : Mary takes up the radical themes and theories developed by her family circle, theories which she often subverts discreetly ; 2°) the subversion of nature (immortality, monstrosity, incest) shows an anxiety of motherhood, a desire to destroy the oppressive institutions of patriarchal society, and a subversion of moral codes and religious doctrine, which are two instruments used by men to subordinate women ; 3°) the subversion of literary conventions, characteristic of many women's writing. Mary Shelley' novels, which often defy classification or do not respect norms, subvert the very notion of genre, even though her very literary style remains conventional. Her personal writings testify to her constant wish to define herself as an author
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Bell, Vivienne Ann. "William Godwin and Frankenstein : the secularization of Calvinism in Godwin's philosophy and the sub-Godwinian Gothic novel ; with some remarks on the relationship of the Gothic to Romanticism /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb435.pdf.
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Swift, Simon Robert. "The needs of reason : anthropological expression and enlightenment rationality in Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405274.
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Moore, Jane. "Mary Wollstonecraft : a cultural history of a Vindication of the Rights of Women." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292998.
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The thesis uses poststructuralist feminist theories in conjunction with cultural history to challenge the common feminist suspicion of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman and propose instead a reading that is historically specific and sympathetic. To bring present-day theories to bear on past texts implicitly raises as an issue the question of reading the past. Part One of the thesis explicitly addresses this question. It examines debates that occurred in the lQ70s over the relationship between narrative an~ history alongside postmodernist interventions in the question of history and explores their implications for what a feminist cultural history might look like. The following~ three chapters silently but consistently allude to the questions of history raised in the opening chapter. These are: how do present-day knowledge's and theoretical projects shape the way we (re)read the past? What is the relationship between the past and the present? Where are past meanings, for example, of femininity produced? Each chapter examines how different editions of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman printed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries invite readers to understand what it means to be feminine, feminist and female and to show in consequence how the meaning of woman, and relatedly of a Vindication, is historically changing and perpetually in struggle. Part Two of the thesis comprises three chapters where feminist poststructuralist theories are used to reread a Vindication of the rights ~ Woman, ~ Wrongs of Woman: ~ Maria and Letters Written during ~ Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The readings enter into a dialogue with each other on the central question of the relationship between gender, genre and style. They are not offered as definitive interpretations. Rather, their engagement with issues of language, meaning and gender ands to and puts into process the cultural history given in Part One.
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Mercer, Anna. "Rethinking the collaborative literary relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley." Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/18022/.
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This thesis offers a reassessment of the literary relationship and instances of creative collaboration between Percy Bysshe Shelley (PBS) and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (MWS). Rather than focusing on biography, I study the textual connections between the Shelleys’ works - though I have drawn on biographical information to put their collaboration into a historical context. I establish that their written works are profoundly influenced by and constructed through their intellectual exchange. Spoken discussions can never be recovered, but the evidence provided in the Shelleys’ writings, manuscripts, and non-fiction allows informed inferences to be made about how their compositions are interrelated. The study begins with the Shelleys’ meeting and their subsequent elopement in 1814, and continues on to PBS’s death in 1822, and beyond. It includes several case studies examined in detail. I give due attention to the work of existing scholars that have recognised the Shelleys’ collaboration, but emphasise that a comprehensive study of the Shelleys’ texts in light of their status as a literary couple has been lacking. More recent studies in Romanticism have shown a marked interest in the significance of collective creativity: PBS and MWS have the potential to provide one of the most intriguing examples of this paradigm, and critics have called for a ‘major study of this collaboration’ (Charles E. Robinson). I demonstrate MWS’s involvement in the production of PBS’s writings, and I identify shared working spaces. My analysis reveals the reciprocity of a relationship that in popular culture - including much of the discourse surrounding the Frankenstein manuscript - is often misrepresented as that of a patriarchal husband exerting intellectual dominance over his wife.
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Reed, Amanda Lynn. "Mary Wollstonecraft and the Maternal Body in The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton149278043398332.
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Guyon, Elisabeth Louise. "The New Feminine Rhetoric: Wollstonecraft, Austen, and the Forms of Romantic-Era Feminism." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2324.pdf.
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Crane, Jessica. "Rhetoric of Resistance: Social Justice in the Work of Wollstonecraft, Cugoano, and Godwin." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22800.
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This dissertation examines the rhetoric employed by Wollstonecraft, Cugoano, and Godwin who devise a top-down/bottom-up dialectic of social-justice writing which can be read as grassroots advocacy. The authors write with two constant goals in mind: from the top down, they decry systemic forms of injustice; and from the bottom up, they make the experiences of victims visible. Scholarship on A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, and Things as They are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, has often focused on assessing the degree to which each text concerns itself with democratic equal rights. By contrast, this project explicates how the writers collectively define social injustice for the late eighteenth century. The writers simultaneously voice their indignation against those moral and socio-economic wrongs; deconstruct assumptions of natural inferiority and social disrespect; demand extensive change to social foundations; assert the humanity of women, workers, and slaves; and empathize with other oppressed populations across their traditionally conceived genres of vindication, slave narrative, and novel. Ultimately, my work incorporates a lexicon of political philosophy, political theory, and grassroots advocacy into literary studies to show how Wollstonecraft, Cugoano, and Godwin not only recognize corresponding patterns of oppression but also utilize strikingly similar literary devices and rhetorical strategies by which to combat injustice. All three authors share the same fundamental aim— to transform the dismal existence of the oppressed groups they represent.
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Berg, Mari. "Female Style and Rhetoric : Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller Arguing the Rights of Woman." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-1445.
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Tessier, Marie Hélène. "A Comparative Study of Feminisms in the Writings of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft." Thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2012/29459/29459.pdf.
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Hodson, Jane Lesley. "The politics of style in the French Revolution debate : Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine and Goodwin." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401297.
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Tessier, Marie-Hélène. "A comparative study of feminisms in the writings of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/24138.
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Les romans de Jane Austen sont souvent perçus comme étant une narration parfaite de la vie domestique au dix-neuvième siècle. La plupart des intrigues sont centrées autour de quelques familles et d'une héroïne qui, à la fin du roman, est récompensée à travers son mariage avec l'homme de son choix (qui s'avère souvent riche et muni d'une bonne position sociale). Puisque les romans d'Austen se terminent généralement par un mariage conventionnel et apparaissent d'une envergure limitée, les analyses des thèmes féministes sous-jacents ne sont pas apparues avant le vingtième siècle. Plusieurs études ont révélé qu'au dessous de ces romans à caractère domestique se cache des arguments féministes en faveur de l'éducation des femmes et une critique des inégalités entre les sexes et des codes de conduite. L'étude qui suit comparera le féminisme d'Austen à celui de Mary Wollstonecraft, à partir de ses essais A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, ainsi que ses romans Mary et The Wrongs of Woman. Cette analyse portera aussi sur trois des romans d'Austen : Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility et Mansfield Park. Ces romans reflètent clairement la situation des femmes de l'époque et s'attardent sur l'importance de l'éducation des femmes, les stéréotypes socialement définis, les relations homme-femme et les situations de violence dans le mariage et la famille. En comparant son engagement avec cette problématique aux oeuvres de Wollstonecraft, cette étude démontre que, au travers de ses romans, Austen était beaucoup plus consciente et engagée avec la société dans laquelle elle vivait qu'on ne l'imaginait
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LaPlant, Katie Desiree. "Katherine Chidley, Damaris Masham, and Mary Wollstonecraft: The Development of a Liberal Feminist Tradition." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394301444.
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Roy, Malini. "Shape-shifters : Romantic-era representations of the child in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin family circle." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:59d59e07-eb4d-46b3-a7c972cd12102b2d.
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Knights, Elspeth. "'Turned loose in the library' : women and reading in the eighteenth century." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263157.
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Mattos, Marília. "Humanoides pós-naturais: atualizações de Frankenstein na cultura ocidental." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFBA, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/8495.
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A tese investiga a relação do mito Frankenstein com configurações identitárias, ditas "pós-humanas", da cultura ocidental. O capítulo inicial focaliza as principais características do mito frankensteiniano, tais como a questão do duplo, a noção de monstro e a de herói trágico, assim como o conflito entre o Romantismo e o Iluminismo. Em "Monstros e máquinas" são abordados androides ficcionais da literatura e do cinema, relacionando-os a correntes epistemológicas da Inteligência Artificial e a Frankenstein. Também é enfocado o subgênero literário "Ficção Científica", buscando-se compreender sua especificidade. O último capítulo concentra-se no pop star Michael Jackson, que é lido como uma versão pós-moderna de Frankenstein, pois se recria incessantemente através da ciência. Jackson é analisado a partir de videoclipes e de dados biográficos e considerado uma atualização contemporânea do herói trágico dionisíaco apontado por Nietzsche
Universidade Federal da Bahia. Instituto de Letras. Salvador-Ba, 2010.
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Tsai, Li-Hui. "Women, autobiography and criticism : The life writing of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Robinson, 1770-2009." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.528961.
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Janosikova, Pavlina. "Turistens blick i Sverige : En analys av två reseskildringar av Mary Wollstonecraft och Gabriel Traveler." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174739.
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The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the impression from a travel to Sweden of two travellers from distinct historical periods: Mary Wollstonecraft, who was an Enlightenment representative from Great Britain, and Gabriel Morris, a contemporary traveller and YouTube-filmmaker from Canada. The proposition is that there is no such thing as “an innocent eye”; that the nature of our perceiving the reality is a product (or a construct) of our social environment, upbringing, education, age, ethnicity, or nationality. For this thesis I read Mary Wollstonecraft´s Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, and I watched Gabriel Morris´s videos from the journey to Sweden on his YouTube-channel. I have described the journey to Sweden of those two protagonists and put it later into context of their historical backgrounds. The main issue has been whether there are differences in their perceiving Swedish nature, people, and culture, and what these differences are based upon. On the other hand, what can be thought of as uniting these two travellers – based on a simple fact that they both were only visiting the country for a short time? The conclusion I made is that their historical background has affected their experiencing the country; while the common ground could be found in the nature of tourism itself.
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Chow, Wing-kai Ernest. "Transgression and identity in Frankenstein, Lord Jim, and the Satanic Verses." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B18735563.
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Yang, Grace. "Forging a role for women in civil society (1788-1816) : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Jane Austen." Thesis, University of Essex, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589432.
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This thesis examines the ways in which Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and Jane Austen claim women's active role in civil society by incorporating gender issues in the male dominated discourses about civil society throughout the eighteenth century. Surveying diverse works of criticism on the writings of the three writers, I argue that their writings were significantly influenced and shaped by moral philosophy and the Revolutionary debates, and that they use the Revolutionary debates as a platform to launch feminist issues. I look into how they probe the works of such prominent moral philosophers as David Hume, Adam Ferguson, and Adam Smith to present their views and legitimize women's civic role. In the post-Revolutionary era, Austen responds to More and Wollstonecraft through her novels Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion expressing her views on forging a role for women in civil society.
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Harris, Cassondra Fay. "Vice or Virtue? American Interpretations of Elizabeth Whitman and Mary Wollstonecraft in the Late Eighteenth Century." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1556907844923407.
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Morgan, Suzanne Melissa. "Aspects of Mary Wollstonecraft's Religious Thought." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2300.
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The works of Mary Wollstonecraft have been largely utilized in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries within the domain of feminist studies. They were influential throughout the 'feminist movement' of the 1960s and 1970s and Wollstonecraft is routinely given the title of 'mother' of feminism. One result of her works being classified as important feminist texts is the elision of the religious element in her works. Moreover, recent scholarship has drawn attention to the central importance of religion in eighteenth century British discourse. This thesis will primarily argue that Wollstonecraft was heavily influenced by religion, and that her writings were conceived in response to a profoundly theologico-political culture. This influence of religion has generally been overlooked by researchers and this thesis will aim to redress this absence. Four of Wollstonecraft's works - all produced within a 'similar' political climate and within a concise time period - are utilized to show that religion was a foundational element within Wollstonecraft's thought and arguments. This thesis shows that Wollstonecraft was not so much a 'feminist' thinker, but a unique intellectual determined to show that the inferior position of women went against 'God's will', teachings and the equality He had ascribed to both men and women during Creation.
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Kibaris, Anna-Maria. "Mary Shelley's monstrous patchwork : textual "grafting" and the novel." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23337.
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This thesis examines selected prose fiction works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in an effort to establish a clearer understanding of the creative principles informing her writing, based on more evidence than her well-known novel Frankenstein provides. Overturning the hitherto dismissive and/or reductive critiques of her lesser-known works, this thesis challenges negative assessments by reinterpreting the structure of Shelley's fiction. Concentrating particularly on the early Frankenstein(1818), Mathilda (written in 1819), and The Last Man (1826), with a focus on the use of insistent embedded quotations, this thesis begins by exploring Shelley's belief in textuality as a form of "grafting." As scholars have suggested, Shelley's literary borrowings are a result of her materialist-based views of human reality. The persistent use of embedded quotations is one way in which Shelley's fiction represents texts as collations of materials. The core of the argument posits that citational "grafting" has distinctive and striking effects in each of the works examined. In Frankenstein, quotations underscore existential alienation by pointing to the need for texts to fill in the lacunae of human understanding; in Mathilda, the narrator uses citations to create a sense of personal identity; and in The Last Man, citational excerpts are used with the assumption that they are shared pockets of meaning belonging to a community of human readers. This reconceptualization of Shelley's writing contributes to the generic taxonomies that are now being used to retheorize "the novel" in more inclusive and specific ways.
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Filas, Michael Joseph. "Cyborg subjectivity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9369.
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Miranda, Anadir dos Reis. "Proto-feministas na Inglaterra setecentista : Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Hays e Mary Robinson. Sociabilidade, subjetividade e escrita de mulheres." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFPR, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1884/49460.
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Orientador : Profª Drª Ana Paula Vosne MartinsTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em História. Defesa: Curitiba, 01/09/2017
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Resumo: Esta tese trata da produção letrada das escritoras Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Mary Hays (1759-1843) e Mary Robinson (1757-1800). Participantes da República das Letras no contexto da Ilustração, essas mulheres entraram em contato com um conjunto de reflexões morais, religiosas e filosóficas que lhes abriu possibilidades de aprimoramento e emancipação intelectual, de estabelecer relações de gênero mais igualitárias, ao mesmo tempo em que, contraditoriamente, exaltavam a dependência e inferioridade das mulheres. Essas contradições que não foram percebidas pela maioria dos pensadores iluministas, tornaram-se evidentes para algumas mulheres que participaram dos grupos religiosos de dissidentes racionalistas e/ou que na década de 1790 se integraram aos círculos radicais londrinos, alguns dos principais espaços do debate político e crítico na Inglaterra. Wollstonecraft, Hays e Robinson vivenciaram essas contradições de forma bastante intensa e dedicaram muitas das suas obras a explicitá-las e discuti-las. Com seus tratados e romances incluíram a questão das "injustiças e dos direitos da mulher" no debate reformista que se desenvolveu na Inglaterra no final do século XVIII. Ao tensionar, por meio de seus comportamentos e escritos, muitos dos limites e paradoxos de gênero presentes nos discursos esclarecidos e liberais, estas mulheres de letras contribuíram para a produção de importantes reflexões e mesmo práticas que viriam a ser incorporadas mais tarde ao movimento de mulheres e ao feminismo, tais como o questionamento dos binarismos masculino e feminino, razão e sensibilidade, teoria e ficção, a crítica veemente à noção de inferioridade inata das mulheres e a defesa intransigente da igualdade de direitos entre homens e mulheres. Palavras-chave: gênero, proto-feminismo, escritoras inglesas, crítica, Iluminismo, Radicalismo inglês.
Abstract: This thesis deals with the literary production of women writers: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), Mary Hays (1759-1843) and Mary Robinson (1757-1800). Participants of the Republic of Letters in the context of the Enlightenment, these women came into contact with a set of moral, religious and philosophical reflections that opened them possibilities of improvement and intellectual emancipation, to establish more egalitarian gender relations, at the same time, contradictorily, they exalted the dependence and inferiority of women. These contradictions, which were not perceived by most of the Enlightenment thinkers, became evident to some women who participated in the religious groups of rationalist dissidents and / or who in the 1790s integrated themselves into the radical circles of London, some of the main areas of political and critical debates in England. Wollstonecraft, Hays, and Robinson experienced these contradictions quite intensely and devoted many of their works to discuss and emphasize them. With their treatises and novels they included the issue of "injustices and women's rights" in the reformist debate that developed in England at the end of the eighteenth century. By addressing, through their behaviors and writings, many of the limits and paradoxes of gender present in enlightened and liberal discourses, these women of letters contributed to the production of important reflections and even practices that would later be incorporated into feminism and women's movement; as well to questioning of binarisms of male and female, reason and sensibility, theory and fiction, plus the vehement criticism to the notion of women's innate inferiority, and the uncompromising defense of equal rights between men and women. Keywords: gender, proto-feminism, English women writers, critics, Enlightenment, English radicalism.
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Barrett, Redfern Jon. "Queer friendship : same sex love in the works of Thomas Gray, Anna Seward, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin." Thesis, Swansea University, 2010. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43030.
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Fisher, Dalene. "Marriage and paradoxical Christian agency in the novels of Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/56688/.
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Between 1790 and 1850, the novel was used widely "for doing God's work," and English female authors, specifically those who identified themselves as Christians, were exploiting the novel's potential to challenge dominant discourse and middle-class gender ideology, particularly in relationship to marriage. I argue in this thesis that Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell used the novel to construct Christian heroines who, as unlikely agents, make resistive choices shown to be undergirded by faith. All practicing some form of Christianity, Wollstonecraft, Austen, Brontë and Gaskell engage evangelicalism's belief in "transformation of the heart." They construct heroines who are specifically shown to question the value of a narrative that assumes wayward husbands would somehow be transformed as a result of the marriage union. The heroines in this study come to resist such reforming schemes. Instead, they paradoxically leverage the very Christian faith that dominant discourse would use to subjugate them in unequal unions.
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McInnes, Andrew. "Wollstonecraft's ghost : the fate of the female philosopher in the Romantic period." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3897.
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Mary Wollstonecraft’s ghost haunts women’s writing of the Romantic period. After her untimely death in 1797, and the publication of William Godwin’s candid biography in 1798, Wollstonecraft’s reputation was besmirched by the reactionary press in an attack on radical support for revolutionary ideals. Wollstonecraft’s campaign for women’s rights was conflated with a representation of her as sexually promiscuous, politically dangerous and religiously unorthodox. For women writing after Wollstonecraft’s death, an engagement with her political ideals risked identification with her lifestyle, deemed both improper and impious. My thesis explores how women writers negotiated Wollstonecraft’s scandalous reputation in order to discuss her influential feminist arguments and develop their own positions on these pressing issues in post-revolutionary Britain. In the early nineteenth century, Wollstonecraft’s life and work gets elided with the figure of the female philosopher, already popular in both pro- and counter-revolutionary writing of the 1790s. After Wollstonecraft’s death, fictional female philosophers echo elements of her biography whilst voicing an often caricatured version of her arguments. By rejecting these satirically overblown feminist positions, women writers could adopt a more moderate form of feminism, often closer to Wollstonecraft’s original polemic, to critique cultural restrictions on women, revealing how these warp female behaviour. My project modifies our understanding of the origins of modern feminism by focussing on Wollstonecraft’s reception across a range of socially and politically diverse texts, and the ways in which the process of reading itself is treated as potentially revolutionary.
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Suetta, Zachary Thomas. "THE IMPASSIONED SELF: ANGER AND THE ROMANTIC AUTHOR." OpenSIUC, 2019. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1669.
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The late eighteenth century marks an era where authors began forging identities that rebuffed the influences of the local communities to which they belonged. As literacy increased, so too did the notion of individuality, as members of the middle and lower orders soon saw themselves as separate, independent beings. The crowd, of course, helped simplify the management of complex emotions like anger through mutual demonstration; the greater number of participants in a protest, the more fitting the sense of indignation seemed to be. For cases of personal anger, however, the suitability and expression of the emotion were problematic, especially for those marginalized by gender, status, and political affiliations. While polite society deemed their anger unwarranted, odious, and threatening, subaltern authors simultaneously realized that the continued denial of the passion would cripple individual and artistic development, but excessive expression would yield further ridicule and ostracism. Anger, therefore, stimulated these authors to discover their actual worth as artists and individuals and carve unique identities that completely disregarded the restrictive characterizations assigned by a hierarchical society. Nevertheless, anger’s volatility meant that discovering oneself from a passion commonly represented as a moment “when we are not ourselves” was a particularly precarious endeavor since righteous indignation could quickly ignite into a mindless, destructive rage. Subaltern authors needed to authenticate the legitimacy of their anger to not only a largely unsympathetic audience, but also themselves, and the apparent foreignness of rage created confusion over the passion’s exact relation to the individual; anger is frequently emblematized in contradictions—internal vs. external, activity vs. passivity, sanity vs. insanity, reality vs. fantasy—to emphasize its deceptive fluidity. As this study argues, anger was fundamental to marginalized figures in achieving selfhood, but the passion’s overall instability and the objection by hierarchical society encouraged a literary treatment that was cautious, unique, and at times, clandestine.
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Stewart, James C. "The ghost of Godwin intertextuality and embedded correspondence in the works of the Shelley circle /." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2008m/stewart.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2008.Additional advisors: Randa Graves, Daniel Siegel, Samantha Webb. Description based on contents viewed Feb. 10, 2009; title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-71).
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Angel-Cann, Lauryn. "Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2000. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2586/.
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The word "necrophilia" brings a particular definition readily to mind that of an act of sexual intercourse with a corpse, probably a female corpse at that. But the definition of the word did not always have this connotation; quite literally the word means "love of the dead," or "a morbid attraction to death." An examination of nineteenth-century literature reveals a gradual change in relationships between the living and the dead, culminating in the sexualized representation of corpses at the close of the century. The works examined for necrophilic content are: Mary Wollstonecrafts Mary, A Fiction, Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stokers Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.
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Rouhette, Anne. "Présentation, traduction et annotation de The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, a romance de Mary Selley." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030076.
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Ce travail a pour objet de présenter et de traduire un ouvrage méconnu de Mary Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, A Romance, roman historique souvent considéré comme alimentaire, qui aborde notamment la question de l'imposture. Après avoir étudié les circonstances de rédaction et de publication, puis, à partir notamment de l'indication " A Romance, " les liens de cette œuvre avec le genre gothique et le renouveau médiéval, ainsi que sa place dans l'évolution du roman historique, surtout par rapport à Walter Scott, on s'intéressera aux opinions politiques de Mary Shelley, en particulier féministes ; exprimées de façon souvent voilée, elles permettront de mettre en lumière les ambivalences d'une femme que l'on soupçonne souvent de conservatismeThis work aims at presenting and translating Mary Shelley's lesser-known historical novel, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, A Romance, often considered as a mere potboiler, which, among other things, tackles the theme of imposture. A first part is devoted to its composition and publication. Then, thanks to its subtitle, "A Romance," are studied the links this implies with the Gothic novel and the medieval revival, as well as the place of this work in the evolution of the historical novel, with respect in particular to Sir Walter Scott. The last part deals with Mary Shelley's political and feminist opinions; expressed in an indirect, "veiled" way, they highlight the ambivalence of a woman many blame for her later-life conservatism