Amy Elizabeth Smith (essay date summer 1992)
SOURCE: Smith, Amy Elizabeth. “Roles for Readers in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Studies in English Literature 32, no. 3 (summer, 1992): 555-70.
[In the following essay, Smith examines A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to determine the intended audience of the work and argues that the treatise addresses both male and female readers.]
Critics who have sought to characterize the implied audience for Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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