Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark - Softcover

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530040116 ISBN 13: 9781530040117

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Excerpt from Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

My, plan was fimply to endeavour to give a jufi. View of the prefent {late of the coun tries I have pafl'ed through, as far as I could obtain information during fo {hort a refi dence; avoiding thofe details which, without being very ufeful to travellers who follow the fame route, appear very infipid to thofe who only accompany you in their chair.

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Book Description:

These twenty-five letters, published in 1796, describe Mary Wollstonecraft's audacious trip to Scandinavia to retrieve a stolen ship for her lover Imlay. More than just a travelogue, they provide fascinating insights into the radical philosophy of this influential thinker, and the inner turmoil she was experiencing at the time.

From the Back Cover:

“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.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530040116
• ISBN 13: 9781530040117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100