## Redefines Mary Wollstonecraft as a multi-lingual cosmopolitan * Defines Wollstonecraft as a cosmopolitan thinker * Examines her engagement with European writers * Analyses her translations as creative rewritings of their source texts Considering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, Felicité de Genlis, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann and Margareta de Cambon, as well as British sentimental philosophers and the radical theologian Richard Price, this book argues that Wollstonecraft espouses a cosmopolitan ethic that subordinates local and national allegiances to philanthropy, or love of humankind. At a time of international conflict, burgeoning capitalism and colonial enterprise, she represents philanthropy and cultural authenticity as the means to resist tyranny and imperialism in all their forms and light the way to global justice. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. ‘The Most Sublime Virtues’: Wollstonecraft’s Philanthropic Personae 2. ‘Original Spirit’: Translating the Maternal Educator 3. ‘Affection for the Whole Human Race’: Wollstonecraft’s Cosmopolitan Love of Country 4. ‘A More Enlightened Moral Love of Mankind’: Philanthropy and the French Revolution 5. ‘Gleams of Truth’: Transparency, Eloquence and the Language of Revolution 6. ‘Imperious Sympathies’: Wollstonecraft’s Philanthropic Traveller 7. ‘The Growth of Each Particular Soil’: Authenticity and Diversity in Wollstonecraft’s Narrative of Progress Coda. ‘Out-Laws of the World’: Cosmopolitanism in The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria Notes Bibliography Index Considering her transformation of material from the works of European writers and orators such as Rousseau, Mirabeau, Félicité de Genlis, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann and Margareta de Cambon, as well as British sentimental philosophers and the radical theologian Richard Price, this book argues that Wollstonecraft espouses a cosmopolitan ethic that subordinates local and national allegiances to philanthropy, or love of humankind. At a time of international conflict, burgeoning capitalism and colonial enterprise, she represents philanthropy and cultural authenticity as the means to resist tyranny and imperialism in all their forms and light the way to global justice.
