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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 174 4 200 x 127 mm 162 pages |
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT A Vindication of the Rights of Men 1790 Wollstonecraft’s was the first published response to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, appearing within a month. It was not a response on shared ground. Instead, this furious, disconnected, passionate, exalted polemic illustrates more clearly than any other literary confrontation of the time the nature of the gulf suddenly opened between supporters and opponents of the Revolution. For opponents, the Revolution was a challenge to the ordered structure of society and the natural order of things. For supporters, it was the religious or quasi-religious revelation of an alternative route for mankind. Composing this first Vindication (about humanity) gave Wollstonecraft the basis on which to write Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. £25 $48 Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pile, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name. |
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