Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child by Eileen M. Hunt PAPERBACK

Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child\nby Eileen M. Hunt\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Eileen M. Hunt\nTitle: Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9780812224566\nISBN-10: 0812224566\nRRP: \u00A323.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nFrom 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, the Modern Prometheus, first published in 18.