Next, Fiore Sireci’s essay studies Wollstonecraft’s reviews for Joseph Johnson’s Analytical Review, arguing that reviewing taught Wollstonecraft how to manage her portrayal of emotions in literary characters. Thus Hays sustains her public admiration for Wollstonecraft throughout both projects. Walker’s instead demonstrates that Hays’s earlier self-standing Wollstonecraft biography served as a template for the subsequently profiled biography of women writers, where Wollstonecraft is hailed for writing “the first women’s intellectual history in English” and as an heir to Christine de Pizan. Gina Luria Walker’s essay corrects the view of Hays as a mere sycophant who, having written a biography of Wollstonecraft, excluded her from her ambitious collective biography of women writers, fearing guilt by association.
In Raisanen’s view, Barbauld (both in this poem and elsewhere) supported Wollstonecraft’s stance, taking exception only to Wollstonecraft’s neglect of the proper education for both sexes needed for men and women to live together as equals. Elizabeth Raisanen re-evaluates Barbauld’s response to Wollstonecraft in her poem “The Rights of Woman,” long construed as a conservative attack on Wollstonecraft. The varied discussions of Wollstonecraft’s contexts and concepts often illuminate relationships between Wollstonecraft’s thought and that of her often-neglected contemporaries.Īnne Mellor’s essays provides a taxonomy the next five, sketching Wollstonecraft’s engagement with the “radical” Hays, the “conservative” Hannah More, and the “moderates” Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen. Six essays focus on Wollstonecraft’s debates with her contemporaries: other women, such as Mary Hays, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Hester Chapone, and Elizabeth Montagu her immediate male predecessors, John Locke, Bernard Mandeville, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau male contemporaries such as Edmund Burke and John Gregory and members of the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Smith and David Hume. Steiner envisions this collection of essays as part of the solution offered by the Recovery Project, which recuperates women philosophers of the past for present use by scholars of history, literature, gender, and cultural studies, as well as philosophy. (Indeed, the only other academic disciplines with fewer women than philosophy are computer science, physics, and engineering). One such current crisis besets academic philosophy, where the relative dearth of women prevents philosophy departments from achieving the sort of gender parity other disciplines take more or less for granted. In her introduction to this volume, Enit Karafili Steiner tells us that “women are summoned emphatically in times of crisis” (p.
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