Mood, Provisionality, and Planetarity in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

This essay reads Mary Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796) alongside Gayatri Spivak's concept of planetarity and Martin Heidegger's phenomenology of mood. The essay suggests that A Short Residence educates readers in a planetary mindset by conveying a correspondenc...

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Publicado en:Criticism Vol. 61; no. 1; pp. 27 - 51
Autor principal: Steiner, Enit Karafili
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Publicado: Wayne State University Press Winter2019
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        Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
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