A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 20 pages of analysis & critique of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 20 pages of analysis & critique of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
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SOURCE: Kitts, Sally-Ann. “Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: A Judicious Response from the Eighteenth-Century Spain.” Modern Language Review 89, no. 2 (April 1994): 351-59.

In the following essay, Kitts discusses a 1792 review of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in a Spanish periodical that was very favorable but which played down the work's more revolutionary aspects.

Those familiar with Mary Wollstonecraft's radical feminist text, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, may be surprised to discover that it received a lengthy and favourable review in a periodical published in the reactionary Spain of 1792. Following the outbreak of the French Revolution in July 1789, the government of Charles IV, headed by the Count of Floridablanca, had taken increasingly severe measures to curb the spread of revolutionary ideas from France, a country which had exerted a great influence on the development of Spanish culture and ideas throughout the eighteenth...

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