Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) (Broadview Editions) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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ISBN 10: 1551118084 ISBN 13: 9781551118086

Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd, 2013

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"Since its publication in 1796, Wollstonecraft's Short Residence has been recognized as her most beautiful and alluring work. A travelogue in letters, it is also a sophisticated experiment in genre. Historical reflection, ethnography, political and economic critique, philosophical reverie, and feminist memoir all take their turns as Wollstonecraft maps the limits of her idealism. Horrocks' edition does justice to the magnificence and complexity of these Letters. The appendices alone provide material for an entire course in contemporary travel-writing, linking it to literary, philosophical, sentimental, and feminist concerns. An unparalleled achievement for Wollstonecraft scholarship and Romantic Studies."--Mary Favret, Indiana University, Bloomington "Ingrid Horrocks' broad-ranging introduction and selection of appendices function as a highly useful interpretive guidebook to the travel writings that they accompany. The judicious survey of texts concerning the revolutionary debate, late-eighteenth-century travel narratives, sentimental journeying, and biographical documents related to Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian travels enable readers clearly to envision just how widely, and into what still-unsettled territories, Wollstonecraft's travel writing extends. Horrocks' emphasis on Wollstonecraft's role as business partner augments the series of poses (ethnographer, mother, victim) that scholars have ascribed to 'the little hero of each tale, ' thereby further loosening the boundaries between sentiment and calculation that Wollstonecraft's entire life-writings work to achieve."--Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara "Since its publication in 1796, Wollstonecraft's Short Residence has been recognized as her most beautiful and alluring work. A travelogue in letters, it is also a sophisticated experiment in genre. Historical reflection, ethnography, political and economic critique, philosophical reverie, and feminist memoir all take their turns as Wollstonecraft maps the limits of her idealism. Horrocks' edition does justice to the magnificence and complexity of these Letters. The appendices alone provide material for an entire course in contemporary travel-writing, linking it to literary, philosophical, sentimental, and feminist concerns. An unparalleled achievement for Wollstonecraft scholarship and Romantic Studies." -- Mary Favret, Indiana University, Bloomington "Ingrid Horrocks' broad-ranging introduction and selection of appendices function as a highly useful interpretive guidebook to the travel writings that they accompany. The judicious survey of texts concerning the revolutionary debate, late-eighteenth-century travel narratives, sentimental journeying, and biographical documents related to Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian travels enable readers clearly to envision just how widely, and into what still-unsettled territories, Wollstonecraft's travel writing extends. Horrocks' emphasis on Wollstonecraft's role as business partner augments the series of poses (ethnographer, mother, victim) that scholars have ascribed to 'the little hero of each tale, ' thereby further loosening the boundaries between sentiment and calculation that Wollstonecraft's entire life-writings work to achieve." -- Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara "Since its publication in 1796, Wollstonecraft's Short Residence has been recognized as her most beautiful and alluring work. A travelogue in letters, it is also a sophisticated experiment in genre. Historical reflection, ethnography, political and economic critique, philosophical reverie, and feminist memoir all take their turns as Wollstonecraft maps the limits of her idealism. Horrocks' edition does justice to the magnificence and complexity of these Letters. The appendices alone provide material for an entire course in contemporary travel-writing, linking it to literary, philosophical, sentimental, and feminist concerns. An unparalleled achievement for Wollstonecraft scholarship and Romantic Studies." -- Mary Favret, Indiana University, Bloomington "Ingrid Horrocks' broad-ranging introduction and selection of appendices function as a highly useful interpretive guidebook to the travel writings that they accompany. The judicious survey of texts concerning the revolutionary debate, late-eighteenth-century travel narratives, sentimental journeying, and biographical documents related to Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian travels enable readers clearly to envision just how widely, and into what still-unsettled territories, Wollstonecraft's travel writing extends. Horrocks' emphasis on Wollstonecraft's role as business partner augments the series of poses (ethnographer, mother, victim) that scholars have ascribed to 'the little hero of each tale, ' thereby further loosening the boundaries between sentiment and calculation that Wollstonecraft's entire life-writings work to achieve." -- Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara "Since its publication in 1796, Wollstonecraft's Short Residence has been recognized as her most beautiful and alluring work. A travelogue in letters, it is also a sophisticated experiment in genre. Historical reflection, ethnography, political and economic critique, philosophical reverie, and feminist memoir all take their turns as Wollstonecraft maps the limits of her idealism. Horrocks' edition does justice to the magnificence and complexity of these Letters. The appendices alone provide material for an entire course in contemporary travel-writing, linking it to literary, philosophical, sentimental, and feminist concerns. An unparalleled achievement for Wollstonecraft scholarship and Romantic Studies." - Mary Favret, Indiana University, Bloomington "Ingrid Horrocks' broad-ranging introduction and selection of appendices function as a highly useful interpretive guidebook to the travel writings that they accompany. The judicious survey of texts concerning the revolutionary debate, late-eighteenth-century travel narratives, sentimental journeying, and biographical documents related to Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian travels enable readers clearly to envision just how widely, and into what still-unsettled territories, Wollstonecraft's travel writing extends. Horrocks' emphasis on Wollstonecraft's role as business partner augments the series of poses (ethnographer, mother, victim) that scholars have ascribed to 'the little hero of each tale,' thereby further loosening the boundaries between sentiment and calculation that Wollstonecraft's entire life-writings work to achieve." - Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Comments: "Since its publication in 1796, Wollstonecraft's Short Residence has been recognized as her most beautiful and alluring work. A travelogue in letters, it is also a sophisticated experiment in genre. Historical reflection, ethnography, political and economic critique, philosophical reverie, and feminist memoir all take their turns as Wollstonecraft maps the limits of her idealism. Horrocks' edition does justice to the magnificence and complexity of these Letters. The appendices alone provide material for an entire course in contemporary travel-writing, linking it to literary, philosophical, sentimental, and feminist concerns. An unparalleled achievement for Wollstonecraft scholarship and Romantic Studies." - Mary Favret, Indiana University, Bloomington "Ingrid Horrocks' broad-ranging introduction and selection of appendices function as a highly useful interpretive guidebook to the travel writings that they accompany. The judicious survey of texts concerning the revolutionary debate, late-eighteenth-century travel narratives, sentimental journeying, and biographical documents related to Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian travels enable readers clearly to envision just how widely, and into what still-unsettled territories, Wollstonecraft's travel writing extends. Horrocks' emphasis on Wollstonecraft's role as business partner augments the series of poses (ethnographer, mother, victim) that scholars have ascribed to 'the little hero of each tale,' thereby further loosening the boundaries between sentiment and calculation that Wollstonecraft's entire life-writings work to achieve." - Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Reseña del editor

"The art of travelling is only a branch of the art of thinking," Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in 1790 in a review of a travel narrative set in Ireland. A Short Residence was her own travel memoir, and became the work that Wollstonecraft most admired in her own lifetime. The text narrates Wollstonecraft's journey through Scandinavia, accompanied by her young daughter; the letters are addressed to an unnamed lover. Passionate and personal, the letters also explore the comparative political and social systems of Europe. The result is a travel book that is both as much a work of political thought as Wollstonecraft's more well-known treatises, and an innovative and influential work in the genre. This Broadview Edition provides a helpful introduction and extensive appendices that contextualise this remarkable text in relation to a number of key political and aesthetic debates.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1551118084
• ISBN 13: 9781551118086
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
• Herausgeber: Horrocks Ingrid