Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110801884X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Book Synopsis A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke by : Mary Wollstonecraft
Download or read book A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) published A Vindication of the Rights of Men anonymously in 1790. The pamphlet sold out within three weeks to great acclaim, though later editions published under her own name met with notable opprobrium. It was the first of many printed responses to Edmund Burke's conservative attacks on the French Revolution, and it marked Wollstonecraft's entry into the intellectual arena of the late eighteenth century. She attacked hereditary privilege and political conservatism, arguing for codified civil rights and political liberty. She also highlighted Burke's gendered language and criticised his silence on the plight of women. Wollstonecraft has inspired reverence and revulsion alike, for both her work and her lifestyle. Her prescience and nonconformity, however, have secured her position in the canon of distinguished eighteenth-century political thinkers. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=wollma.