Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Difference in Letters




It's interesting that the Grand Tour was commonly for young men, yet out of all the travel narratives we read, they are all told from the perspective of women. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, there seems to be a different type of travel narrative. It reads more like a story, rather than an account and it seems to be autobiographical. Out of all the stories, this one is very personable, and real. Though all the women use sublimity in their works, in Wollstonecraft's work, Wollstonecraft connects a lot of it to sterility and the beautiful to fertility

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