A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund B
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- ~26,300 words · 125 passages
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- APAMary Wollstonecraft. (n.d.). A vindication of the rights of men, in a letter to the Right Honourable Edmund B. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/mary-wollstonecraft/a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-men-in-a-letter-to-the-right-honourable-edmund-b
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What it is about
A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790): the first printed answer to Burke on the French Revolution.
Context and history
It appeared within weeks of Burke's Reflections and before Paine's reply. Wollstonecraft attacks the defence of tradition and inheritance, and along the way Burke's sentimentalism, which she reads as a way of passing privilege off as beauty. Two years later she would turn the same argument on the position of women.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Mr. Burke’s Reflections on the French Revolution first engaged my attention as the transient topic of the day; and reading it more for amusement than information, my indignation was roused by the sophistical arguments, that every moment crossed me, in the questionable shape of natural feelings and common sense. Many pages of the following letter were the effusions of the moment; but, swelling imperceptibly to a considerable size, the idea was suggested of publishing a short vindication of _the Rights of Men_. Not having leisure or patience to follow this desultory writer through all the devious tracks in which his fancy has started fresh game, I have confined my strictures, in a great measure, to the grand principles at which he has levelled many ingenious arguments in a very specious garb. A LETTER TO THE _Right Honourable EDMUND BURKE_. SIR, It is not necessary, with courtly insincerity, to apologise to you for thus intruding on your precious time, not to
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