Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-276) and index.
Introduction: Mary Wollstonecraft and eighteenth-century political economy -- Political economy and commercial society in the 1790s -- The engagement with Burke : contesting the 'natural course of things' -- Property, passions and manners : political economy and the vindications -- Political economy in revolution : France, free commerce and Wollstonecraft's History of the French Revolution -- Property in political economy : modernity, individuation, and literary form -- Credit and credulity : political economy, gender, and the sentiments in The wrongs of woman -- Conclusion: Imagination, futurity, and the value of things