Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
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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...
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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.
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'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.
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Autoren-Porträt von Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797); zunächst Schulleiterin und Gouvernante, dann Lektorin und Schriftstellerin; verheiratet mit dem englischen Schriftsteller William Godwin. Die gleichnamige Tochter ist die spätere Mary Shelley.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Mary Wollstonecraft
- 2009, 240 Seiten, Maße: 13,2 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Tone Brekke, Jon Mee
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199230633
- ISBN-13: 9780199230631
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.02.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
This collection brings to life a radical writer. Katie Toms, The Observer
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