Amy Elizabeth Smith (essay date summer 1992)


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...

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