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COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. By BARBARA TAYLOR. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xvi+331 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $65 (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling]; $23). ISBN 0-521-66144-7 (pbk 0-521-00417-9).
The title of this superb book is unfortunate, and Taylor herself suggests a better option in the introduction: 'This book is a study of Mary Wollstonecraft's radical imagination, particularly her feminist imaginings' (p. 4, emphasis added). Wollstonecraft's status as an icon of modern feminism has led to restrictive ideological readings which do not evoke the complexities of her historical context. Moreover, these readings...
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