Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551118084 ISBN 13: 9781551118086

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2013

Synopsis

“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 title

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.

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1551118084
• ISBN 13: 9781551118086
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Horrocks Ingrid