The Idea of Being Free: A Mary Hays Reader
Gina Luria Walker
Dec 2005 · Broadview Press
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About this ebook
Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection, however, Gina Luria Walker reveals the extraordinary range of Hays’s oeuvre. The selections are mainly from Hays’s non-fiction writings, including letters, life-writing, political commentary, and essays. The extracts demonstrate her importance as an advanced and innovative thinker, philosophical commentator, and writer of deliberately experimental fiction.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and full annotation. Texts by numerous other writers are interleaved chronologically with Hays’s writings to illustrate her idiosyncratic intellectual genealogy, how her understanding modulated over time, and the multiple ways in which she influenced and was influenced by the most significant issues and figures of her age.
About the author
Gina Luria Walker is Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at The New School, New York. She is the co-editor of the Broadview edition of William Godwin’s Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2001) and has published widely on Romantic literature and Enlightenment feminisms.
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