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Vice or Virtue? American Interpretations of Elizabeth Whitman and Mary Wollstonecraft in the Late Eighteenth Century

Harris, Cassondra Fay
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6542-7951
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1556907844923407

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2019, M.A. (Master of Arts in English), Ohio Dominican University, English.
This work analyzes the previously overlooked similarities between the lives and works of Elizabeth Whitman and Mary Wollstonecraft. Both women attempted to reject the female norms regarding marriage, independence, and separate spheres in order to gain freedom and autonomy in the late eighteenth century. This work includes letters both women wrote to the Barlow family, as well as Hannah Webster Foster’s, The Coquette, based loosely on the life of Whitman, and William Godwin’s, Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman. A study of the reception of each woman’s death, as well as the works written about them, reveals the ways in which American society changed the women’s narratives to illustrate the negative consequences of female liberation.
Kelsey Squire, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Imali Abala, Ph.D. (Other)
50 p.
American Literature; British and Irish Literature; Gender Studies; Literature
Elizabeth Whitman; Mary Wollstonecraft; The Coquette; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Joel Barlow; William Godwin

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  • Harris, C. F. (2019). Vice or Virtue? American Interpretations of Elizabeth Whitman and Mary Wollstonecraft in the Late Eighteenth Century [Master's thesis, Ohio Dominican University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1556907844923407

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Harris, Cassondra. Vice or Virtue? American Interpretations of Elizabeth Whitman and Mary Wollstonecraft in the Late Eighteenth Century. 2019. Ohio Dominican University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1556907844923407.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Harris, Cassondra. "Vice or Virtue? American Interpretations of Elizabeth Whitman and Mary Wollstonecraft in the Late Eighteenth Century." Master's thesis, Ohio Dominican University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1556907844923407

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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