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- Title
"Defects of Temper": Mary Wollstonecraft's Strategies of Self-Representation.
- Authors
Sireci, Fiore
- Abstract
In the past decade, psychological interpretations of Wollstonecraft's writing have given way to analyses of rhetoric, genre, and political discourse. However, the relationship between the historical Wollstonecraft and the authorial personae who appear in the works remains a rewarding area of study. Mary Wollstonecraft's experience as writer in different genres and in particular her involvement in professional literary reviewing for the Analytical Review gave her the capacity to employ authorial self-representation as a form of political rhetoric. In particular, Wollstonecraft's appreciation for Rousseau's Confessions reveals an interest in the strategic use of emotive postures. The essay analyzes the various forms of self-representation that Wollstonecraft undertakes in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
- Subjects
WOLLSTONECRAFT, Mary, 1759-1797; LEGAL self-representation; RHETORIC &; politics; VINDICATION of the Rights of Woman, A (Book : Wollstonecraft); LITERATURE &; society
- Publication
Dialogue (15749630), 2014, Vol 17, p71
- ISSN
1574-9630
- Publication type
Essay