Mary Wollstonecraft in Context

'An impressive showcase for the breadth and depth of current scholarship.' E. J. Clery, Times Literary Supplement

'Contributors' cross-references to other entries in the book allow readers to follow specific lines of inquiry. Notable for its breadth, this collection positions Wollstonecraft as a major feminist writer, literary critic, and social commentator.' C. L. Bandish, Choice

'... Wollstonecraft in Context offers a richly veined resource to borrow, to browse, to burrow into.' Susan J. Wolfson, The Wordsworth Circle

'The collection successfully breathes new life into the static, and oftentimes caricatured, conception of Wollstonecraft as a pioneering feminist by giving equal valence to her work as novelist, letter writer, reviewer, educator, and translator ... These collected essays succeed at nuancing Wollstonecraft's life and work while unfolding new avenues for investigation.' Adela Ramos, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Nancy E. Johnson is Professor of English and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York, New Paltz. She is the author of The English Jacobin Novel on Rights Property and the Law (2004), editor of Impassioned Jurisprudence (2015), and scholarly editor of The Court Journals of Frances Burney, Volume VI: 1790-1 (2019). She has published widely on literature of the 1790s and the intersections of literature and legal thought in the eighteenth century. Paul Keen is Professor of English at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author and editor of several books including The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s: Print Culture and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, 1999), Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800 (Cambridge, 2012), and The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850 (forthcoming).

Part I. Life and Works: 1. Biography Kate Chisholm; 2. Correspondence Andrew McInnes; 3. Family Julie Carlson; 4. Joseph Johnson David Fallon; Part II. Critical Fortunes: 5. Early critical reception Nancy E. Johnson; 6. Nineteenth-century critical reception Eileen Hunt Botting; 7. 1970s critical reception Julie Murray; 8. Recent critical reception Eliza O'Brien; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 9. Writing the French Revolution Mary A. Favret; 10. Radical societies David O'Shaughnessy; 11. Radical publishers Jon Mee; 12. British conservatism Paul Keen; 13. Jacobin reformers Mary Fairclough; 14. Liberal reformers Michelle Levy; 15. Conservative reformers Claire Grogan; 16. French philosophes Sylvana Tomaselli; 17. Dissenters Andrew McKendry; 18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Laura Kirkley; 19. Edmund Burke Frans de Bruyn; 20. William Godwin Pamela Clemit; 21. Political theory Lena Halldenius; 22. Feminist theory Jane Moore; 23. The constitution Ian Ward; 24. Property law Catherine Packham; 25. Domestic law Rebecca Probert; 26. Slavery and abolition Katie Donington; 27. The Bluestockings Betty Schellenberg; 28. Conduct literature Vivien Jones; 29. Theories of education Frances Ferguson; 30. Sentimentalism and sensibility Alex Wetmore; 31. English Jacobin novels April London; 32. Anti-Jacobin novels Gary Kelly; 33. Children's literature Andrew O'Malley; 34. Gothic literature Michael Gamer; 35. Travel writing Pamela Perkins; 36. History writing Jonathan Sachs; 37. Periodicals Jacqueline George; 38. Translations Alessa Johns; Suggested further reading; Index.