Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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"Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a deeply personal travel narrative. The twenty-five letters cover a wide range of topics, from sociological reflections on Scandinavia and its peoples to philosophical questions regarding identity to musings on her relationship with Imlay (although he is not referred to by name in the text). Using the rhetoric of the sublime, Wollstonecraft explores the relationship between the self and society. Reflecting the strong influence of Rousseau, Letters Written in Sweden shares the themes of the French philosopher's Reveries of a Solitary Walker (1782): "the search for the source of human happiness, the stoic rejection of material goods, the ecstatic embrace of nature, and the essential role of sentiment in understanding". While Rousseau ultimately rejects society, however, Wollstonecraft celebrates domestic scenes and industrial progress in her text."--Wikipedia.
Author: Anka Ryall
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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"Best remembered today as a novelist and political philosopher, Mary Wollstonecraft continues to challenge her present-day readers, as she did Virginia Woolf. Of all her writing the masterpiece is perhaps her last completed work, the epistolary travel narr"
Author: Per Nyström
Publisher: Göteborg : Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141905875
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Short Residence in Sweden is the record of Wollstonecraft's last journey in search of happiness, into the remote and beautiful backwoods of Scandinavia. The quest for a lost treasure ship, the pain of a wrecked love affair, memories of the French Revolution, and the longing for some Golden Age, all shape this vivid narrative, which Richard Holmes argues is one of the neglected masterpieces of early English Romanticism. Memoirs is Godwin's own account of Wollstonecraft's life, written with passionate intensity a few weeks after her tragic death. Casting aside literary convention, Godwin creates an intimate portrait of his wife, startling in its candour and psychological truth. Received with outrage by friends and critics alike, and virtually suppressed for a century, it can now be recognized as one of the landmarks in the development of modern biography.
Author: Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521789523
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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A collected volume which addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career.
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1897406355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1609778812
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published. The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression. The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher:
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Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199230633
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition includes reviews, additional letters, and documents on the background to the journey.
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732663248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Reproduction of the original: Letters written during a short Residence n Sweden, Norway and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
