Reading List: Fall & Winter 2009 ... Oct 19, 2009
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Frankenstein. (Suite101.com)
Book group to discuss Frankenstein Sep 15, 2009
The featured book will be Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Written in 1818 as the result of a writing contest, this Gothic novel is part science fiction, part thriller and part moral tale. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Conservative Curriculum Quotas? Aug 28, 2009
Burke should, and in my experience does, make the cut for intellectual history surveys that also tackle Rousseau, Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Marx (depending on how one periodizes the survey). Even here, one would expect less of Burke than, say, Rousseau, again for conventional reasons Rousseau and his epigones were more of a driving force in the late 18th and into the 19th century. (The American Conservative)
‘On Kindness’ explores why we bothering being nice Aug 23, 2009
Taylor is the author of Eve and the New Jerusalem, an award-winning study of 19th-century feminism, as well as a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft. On Kindness opens with a capsule history of the concept of kindness from Marcus Aurelius to Freud, touching on philosophy, literature, religion, psychology, and biology along the way. (Boston Globe)
Down With Quiet Domesticity. Up With Crazy Love. Jun 20, 2009
Charting the love lives of Mary Wollstonecraft, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Margaret Fuller, she argues that these women's capacity for heedless love is directly tied to their intellectual penetration. "We reason deeply when we forcibly feel," as Mary Wollstonecraft put it. (Slate)
UAB names head of government department Jun 18, 2009
She is the author of one book, Rebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Politics and co-authored the book Women, Politics and American Society. In 2002, she received the university s President s Award for Excellence in Teaching. (Birmingham Business Journal, AL)
Why Vermont's Marriage Equality Matters Apr 11, 2009
More recent wisdom: "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness." Author: Mary Wollstonecraft. Posted by Solomonn at 11:08 PM : Apr 10, 2009. (CBS News)
