i just finished wollstonecraft’s “Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman” for Wittreich’s Miltonic Romanticism class and it seems Mary’s autobiographic bent is not limited to her scandinavian travels. There is also “Mary, a fiction,’ which is expressly marketed as autobiography. I am amazed at how Godwin can edit and arrange her writings with such clarity and lucidity–his tone seems almost as rational and cool as ever. No, on second thought, I am not that surprised. But I refer to his style, tone–Mary’s acquaintance and company, however, surely work a domestic sensibility on him.
but these comments are unpolitic of me, as these texts are not on our syllabus, and I have yet to plumb those that are!
nancy said
i just finished wollstonecraft’s “Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman” for Wittreich’s Miltonic Romanticism class and it seems Mary’s autobiographic bent is not limited to her scandinavian travels. There is also “Mary, a fiction,’ which is expressly marketed as autobiography. I am amazed at how Godwin can edit and arrange her writings with such clarity and lucidity–his tone seems almost as rational and cool as ever. No, on second thought, I am not that surprised. But I refer to his style, tone–Mary’s acquaintance and company, however, surely work a domestic sensibility on him.
but these comments are unpolitic of me, as these texts are not on our syllabus, and I have yet to plumb those that are!