Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
By: By Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson ...
Published: 1796
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Description and travel; Early works to 1800; Marriage; Travel; English Authors; Biography; Feminists; Romanticism; Correspondence
Description: "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.
Notes: Letters written to Gilbert Imlay, her first husband.

Books "Published by the author of these Letters:" p. [5]-[6] at end.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T038577

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