The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
Virtue: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This thesis is a screenplay for an imagined "biopic" of Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft has already been the subject of many biographies, each presenting their authors' own understanding of her life. Here, I present my view, guided -- to varying and sometimes conflicting degrees -- by my understanding of her own fictionalized autobiographical efforts; by my understanding of Godwin's attempted work in his Memoir of the Author of the Vindication of the Rights of Woman; by the idea that her beliefs about virtue and freedom drove her forward through her own life; by the needs of narrative structure and the challenges and opportunities of the film form; by her works, her letters, and Godwin's Memoir; and by my own admitted desire to portray her life as bold, adventurous, and ultimately a triumph rather than a tragedy. This last consideration was the foremost in my selection of the format of an imagined film as the medium of this biography.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Liberal Studies
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- McGivney, Jessica
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Rachel Brownstein
Subjects
dc:subject × 9Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/593
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-1592