USHERING IN CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSE: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Under the Editorship of Frank Runcie and Julie Beaulieu
In her short life, the author of the Vindications achieved unprecedented notoriety for a woman in
public life. She wrote fiction and travel journals, translated, edited a reader, and perhaps most
notably for posterity, wrote both A Vindication of the Rights of Man, and A Vindications of the
Rights of Women, in doing so critiquing the thought of contemporary philosophers Edmund Burke
and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
She was a lone early voice for both gender equality and the abolition of slavery. While
Wollstonecraft was in many respects an avant-garde figure, her portrayal of Muslims and Southern
European cultures may today elicit other readings. In this light, we welcome discussions of her
influence and her relevance in current social critique.
For its 5th (Fall 2004) publication, Post-Scriptum.ORG issues a call for papers on the life and
thought of Mary Wollstonecraft. In view of the Wollstonecraft’s wide interests and fields of activity,
we would encourage contributions on any of the following aspects of her life and work:
-Aesthetics (e.g. critique of the sublime)
-(Auto) biography/travel writing
-Social and political critique
-Translation and editorship
-Fiction
We welcome new and interdisciplinary approaches to her work (for example post-colonial
revisionist re-readings) and will consider contributions in English, French, German and Spanish.
Deadlines: June 1st 2004 (brief proposition); September 1st 2004 (final 4500 word article)
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