A Short Residence In Sweden Norway And Denmark And Memoirs Of The Author Of The Rights Of Women

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141905875
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short Residence in Sweden & Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1987-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : ePenguin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short Residence in Sweden & Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a travel book and a biography of its author.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a private travel story by Mary Wollstonecraft. A broad spectrum of topics, ranging from sociological musings to philosophical matters, is covered in these twenty-five letters.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338702844X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191567388
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.' William Godwin, the author's future husband, was not alone in admiring Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Wollstonecraft's most popular book during her lifetime. Not easy to categorize, it is both an arresting travel book and a moving exploration of her personal and political selves. Wollstonecraft set out for Scandinavia just two weeks after her first suicide attempt, on a mission from the lover whose affections she doubted, to recover his silver on a ship that had gone missing. With her baby daughter and a nursemaid, she travelled across the dramatic landscape and wrote sublime descriptions of the natural world, and the events and people she encountered. What emerges most vividly is Wollstonecraft's courage and ability to look beyond her own suffering to the turmoil around her in revolutionary Europe, and a better future. This edition includes further material on the silver ship, Wollstonecraft's personal letters to Imlay during her trip, an extract from Godwin's memoir, and a selection of contemporary reviews. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Harriet Devine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415258999
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Wollstonecraft and the Critics, 1788-2001 written by Harriet Devine and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara Schaff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110497050
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of British Travel Writing written by Barbara Schaff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.

Author : W. Verhoeven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597599
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Histories written by W. Verhoeven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, historians and literary critics from both sides of the Atlantic analyse some of the most significant watersheds and faultlines that occurred in the period 1775-1815, a crucial era in the history of Euro-Americans relations. Tracing complex patterns of intellectual and cultural cross-pollination between the Old and the New World, between pre-and post-Revolutionary cultures, the essays aim to increase out awareness of the degree to which the emergence of cultural nationalism in this period was essentially a transatlantic process - a process that was itself part of a larger circumatlantic cultural continuum.

Author : Susan Civale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526101289
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic women's life writing written by Susan Civale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the publication of women’s life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century. It provides case studies of Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and Mary Hays, four writers whose names were caught up in debates about the moral and literary respectability of publishing the ‘private’. Focusing on gender, genre and authorship, this study examines key works of life writing by and about these women, and the reception of these texts. It argues for the importance of life writing—a crucial site of affective and imaginative identification—in shaping authorial reputation and afterlife. The book ultimately constructs a fuller picture of the literary field in the long nineteenth century and the role of women writers and their life writing within it.