Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A Vindication of the Rights of Men

1790
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
B-

Wollstonecraft's response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France is her first radical (as opposed to liberal) work.  With a more vivid subject than education, her writing becomes livelier, while still showing her love of reason.  Although she does address the French revolution, she also weighs in on such side topics as early marriages (pro) and primogeniture (anti).

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