Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427017891
Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427017891
Category : Scandinavia
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher: Restless Books
ISBN: 163206006X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
While best remembered for her revolutionary work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), renowned feminist, author, and thinker Mary Wollstonecraft’s most popular book during her lifetime was a travel narrative, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. As acclaimed travel author and novelist Joanna Kavenna notes in an insightful new introduction, Wollstonecraft’s overlooked classic is timeless in its appeal and surprisingly modern in its sensibility. The impetus behind her trip couldn’t be more dramatic: Just two weeks after her first suicide attempt, Wollstonecraft sets out for Scandinavia in order to retrieve a stolen treasure ship for her lover, Gilbert Imlay. Believing that the journey would restore their strained relationship, she eagerly embarks with her baby daughter and a nursemaid. As she travels across the dramatic landscape, she writes vividly of the people she encounters, events she witnesses, and the natural landscape in a sublime style that would later influence the Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Yet the letters also reflect her anguish as she comes to realize that her love affair is fated to end. Letters Written from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is an arresting travel book, a deeply personal memoir, and a provocative, philosophical exploration of identity and politics. Wollstonecraft's future husband, philosopher William Godwin, wrote: "If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.” In its day, it inspired hordes of readers to travel to Scandinavia. Now, freshly reintroduced, Mary Wollstonecraft's remarkable Letters will enchant a new generation of readers and world travelers. Praise for Letters Written from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark “Travelling with just her baby daughter and a nursemaid as company, Wollstonecraft cuts a dashing figure on a mission to recover a stolen boat of silver and proves herself an acute observer and knowledgeable guide. She was, however, primarily a woman of ideas and she used these letters to extend her defence of the French Revolution, outline her radical stance on women's rights, crime (caused by wealth, not poverty), capital punishment (ineffective and excessive) and commerce (evil).... This collection brings to life the radical writer of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, proving she was a strident, independent force in deeds as well as words. One can only imagine the spectacle she caused travelling alone in the late 18th century.” —Katie Toms, The Observer "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, husband of Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was published at the end of the 18th century—one marked by the concept of “enlightenment,” by the gradual erosion of monarchical authority (which reached its apex with the French Revolution in 1789), and by the birth of democracy. While the question of the rights of men engendered lively debate at that time, a woman's lot remained unconsidered. Wollstonecraft, however, was determined to change this and to add a dissenting female voice to the chorus debating political emancipation. Best known as a radical feminist, Wollstonecraft wrote about politics, history, and various aspects of philosophy in a number of different genres that included critical Praise for, translations, pamphlets, and novels. She also shaped the art of travel writing as a literary genre and, through her account of her journey through Scandinavia, she had an impact on the Romantic movement. Joanna Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain, and has also lived in the USA, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and the Baltic States. Her first book, The Ice Museum, was about traveling in the remote North, among other things. Her second was a novel called Inglorious, which won the Orange Award for New Writing. It was followed by a novel called The Birth of Love, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her latest novel is a satire called Come to the Edge. Kavenna's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Guardian and Observer, the Times Literary Supplement, the International Herald Tribune, the Spectator and the Telegraph, among others. She was named as one of the Telegraph's 20 "Writers under 40" in 2010. She has most recently been the Writer-in-Residence at St Peter's College, Oxford.
Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427022712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 142702409X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
I Love Animals Swedish - Norwegian
Author: Gilad SofferPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539086703
Category :
Languages : sv
Pages : 38
Book Description
"I Love Animals Swedish - Norwegian" is a list of 50 Animals images and their names in English and Norwegian. This is the perfect book for kids who love Animals. With this book children can build their Animals vocabulary and start to develop word and picture association.
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Author: Mary WollstonecraftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book 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.
A School Geography ...
Author: James CornwellTravels Through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark
Author: Arthur de Capell BrokePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lapland
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Author: John Murray (Firm)
Author: Clarke