Mary Shelley and the rights of the child : political philosophy in Frankenstein / Eileen Hunt Bottin...
Mary Shelley and the rights of the child : political philosophy in Frankenstein / Eileen Hunt Bottin...
Mary Shelley and the rights of the child : political philosophy in Frankenstein / Eileen Hunt Botting.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
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G 2018/2719
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English
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Physical content
xi, 220 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Preface : welcome to the Creature double feature -- Introduction : Frankenstein and the question of children's rights -- The specter of the stateless orphan from Hobbes to Shelley -- Wollstonecraft's philosophy of children's rights -- Shelley's thought experiments on the rights of the child -- Three...
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Publisher
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Edition
1st edition.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
[2018]
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"From her youth, Mary Shelley immersed herself in the social contract tradition, particularly the educational and political theories of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the radical philosophies of her parents, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the anarchist William Godwin. Against this background, Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or,...
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Mary Shelley and the rights of the child : political philosophy in Frankenstein / Eileen Hunt Botting.
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Haney Foundation series
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-210) and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/2719
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74VKVoKVBWJX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVoKVBWJX
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ISBN
0812249623 (hardback alkaline paper)
9780812249620 (hardback alkaline paper)
DDC
823.7
MMS ID
991024166182302626
