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In Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child , Eileen Hunt Botting contends that Frankenstein is a profound work of speculative fiction designed to engage a radical moral and political question: do children have rights?
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812224566
ISBN-13
9780812224566
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038913862
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Publication Name
Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child : Political Philosophy in Frankenstein
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Women Authors, Human Rights, Child Advocacy, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2019
Series
Haney Foundation Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Literary Criticism, Political Science
Number of Pages
232 Pages
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Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
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College Audience
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"One sets a very high bar in claiming that a book on Frankenstein advances a new, important reading--especially one appearing in 2018, when worldwide commemorations of the bicentenary of the first edition are focusing unprecedented attention on Shelley's novel. But such a feat is ventured and gained by Eileen Hunt Botting's Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child" -- The Modern Language Review, " Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, in its passion and commitments, vividly illustrates Frankenstein's continuing power, two hundred years on, to comment on the pressing political issues of the day."-- Modern Philology, Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, in its passion and commitments, vividly illustrates Frankenstein's continuing power, two hundred years on, to comment on the pressing political issues of the day., "Readers of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child will never again be able to read Frankenstein simply as a work of Gothic fiction that questioned the counter-theology and scientific bravado of its day. Eileen Hunt Botting, more thoroughly than any previous commentator, has revealed the philosophical content of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and has firmly placed it in the context of modern political thought."--Gordon Schochet, Rutgers University, Treating the creature as an abandoned and abused child, Eileen Hunt Botting brilliantly uses the novel Frankenstein to mount a series of thought experiments that interrogate the enduring political questions of whether children have rights and, if so, which ones. Deftly summarizing the positions of such writers as Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Onora O'Neill, Botting persuasively argues for a child's universal rights to care, identity, and love-rights that Botting here extends to disabled, stateless, and genetically modified children., While there has been a great deal written within literary theory and criticism on the novel Frankenstein , and there is a substantial, and growing, literature within moral and political philosophy on the rights of children and the obligations of parents, Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child is the first book to bring these two areas of inquiry together. Eileen Hunt Botting's fascinating analysis shows how literary texts, suitably reinterpreted, can make better sense of key philosophical claims., "While there has been a great deal written within literary theory and criticism on the novel Frankenstein , and there is a substantial, and growing, literature within moral and political philosophy on the rights of children and the obligations of parents, Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child is the first book to bring these two areas of inquiry together. Eileen Hunt Botting's fascinating analysis shows how literary texts, suitably reinterpreted, can make better sense of key philosophical claims."--David Archard, Queen's University Belfast, "Treating the creature as an abandoned and abused child, Eileen Hunt Botting brilliantly uses the novel Frankenstein to mount a series of thought experiments that interrogate the enduring political questions of whether children have rights and, if so, which ones. Deftly summarizing the positions of such writers as Hobbes, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, and Onora O'Neill, Botting persuasively argues for a child's universal rights to care, identity, and love--rights that Botting here extends to disabled, stateless, and genetically modified children."--Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles, ""One sets a very high bar in claiming that a book on Frankenstein advances a new, important reading-especially one appearing in 2018, when worldwide commemorations of the bicentenary of the first edition are focusing unprecedented attention on Shelley's novel. But such a feat is ventured and gained by Eileen Hunt Botting's Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child" ", Readers of Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child will never again be able to read Frankenstein simply as a work of Gothic fiction that questioned the counter-theology and scientific bravado of its day. Eileen Hunt Botting, more thoroughly than any previous commentator, has revealed the philosophical content of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and has firmly placed it in the context of modern political thought.
Table of Content
Preface. Welcome to the Creature Double Feature Introduction. Frankenstein and the Question of Children's Rights Chapter 1. The Specter of the Stateless Orphan from Hobbes to Shelley Chapter 2. Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of Children's Rights Chapter 3. Shelley's Thought Experiments on the Rights of the Child Chapter 4. Three Applications of Shelley's Thought Experiments: The Rights of Disabled, Stateless, and Posthuman Children Notes Index Acknowledgments
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