The Victim of Prejudice - Brossura

Hays, Mary; Ty, Eleanor Rose

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ISBN 10: 1551112175 ISBN 13: 9781551112176

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 1998

Riassunto

Mary Hays was an outspoken Radical intellectual in the turbulent decade of the 1790's. She argued vehemently for the need to recognise the moral and rational qualities of women, the necessity of a better system of education for girls, and the importance of giving women without fortunes a career without 'servitude in prostitution.'The Victim of Prejudiceâ??Hays' second novel, first published in 1799â??is a powerful indictment of man-made institutions such as the courts and legislative systems which favour persons of wealth and rank. In the novel the metaphor of women's confinement becomes real as the heroine's worst nightmares, her horrors and sense of helplessness become a physical reality.The Victim of Prejudice is of great interest for its strong feminist content, and it is both powerful and moving as a literary work; this edition makes this important late eighteenth-century text again available to a wide readership.Appendices of the new edition include excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Rousseau, Edward Moore, contemporary reviews, Hays' essays and letters.

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L'autore:

Eleanor Ty is Associate Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published Empowering the Feminine (1999) and Unsex'd Revolutionaries (1993).

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Su questa edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1551112175
• ISBN 13: 9781551112176
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 260