ABSTRACT
There has been a rising interest in the study of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) in moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, political theory, and the history of political thought in recent decades. Since the publication of Virginia Sapiro’s now classic book A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft (1992), we have seen a number of book-length studies of Wollstonecraft from various philosophical and political perspectives (Gunther-Canada 2001, Botting 2006, Taylor 2006, O’Neill 2007, Bergès 2013a, Halldenius 2015, Botting 2016, Coffee forthcoming). This has been a welcome trend in Wollstonecraft scholarship. Wollstonecraft had described herself at various points in her writing career as a ‘moralist,’ a ‘philosopher,’ and a scholar of ‘political science,’ and it was time that academic disciplines treated her as such (Wollstonecraft 1989, vol. 5, 103; vol. 6, 45).
