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Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe

Autor Mary Wollstonecraft
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 oct 2010
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) published this book, the last before her death in childbirth, in 1796. The twenty-five letters are an account of a daring wartime trip to Scandinavia to attempt to retrieve a stolen ship for her lover, the American adventurer Gilbert Imlay. Her letters describe the people and culture she encountered, as well as the beautiful natural surroundings she observed. But in addition to a travelogue these letters include political reflections on controversial topics such as prison reform, as well as revealing a very personal story of inner turmoil and dislocation. Wollstonecraft's letters were written at a difficult period in her life - she had recently attempted suicide - and their themes and emotional content influenced the Romantic poets of the following generation, even though the book's initial popularity waned after her death. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=wollma
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108018890
ISBN-10: 1108018890
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Advertisement; Letters I-XXV; Appendix.

Descriere

Wollstonecraft's letters (1796) not only record her journey to Scandinavia but also reveal her intellectual brilliance and psychological turmoil.

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“The art of travelling is only a branch of the art of thinking,” Mary Wollstonecraft wrote in one of her many reviews of works of travel writing. A Short Residence is her own travel memoir. In a series of letters addressed to an unnamed lover, the work narrates Wollstonecraft’s journey through Scandinavia in 1795, on much of which she was accompanied by her infant daughter. Passionate and personal, A Short Residence is at once a moving epistolary travel narrative, a politically-motivated ethnographic tract, a work of scenic tourism, and a sentimental journey. It is both as much a work of political thought as Wollstonecraft’s better known treatises, and a brilliant, innovative, and influential work in the genre.

This Broadview edition provides a helpful introduction and extensive appendices that contextualize this remarkable text in relation to key political and aesthetic debates. It also includes a significant selection from Wollstonecraft’s travel reviews.


Notă biografică

Ingrid Horrocks is a Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.