Nature "so akin to pleasure and pain" : abjection and sublimity in Wollstonecraft's Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
| dc.contributor.author | Harper, Heather Megan | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-14T16:44:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-14T16:44:35Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 1997 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of English | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | I suggest that Wollstonecraft's sublime landscape aesthetic in Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark is a response to woman's historical position at the boundary between nature and culture. Creating a dialectic between Julia Kr isteva's psychoanalytic analysis of cross-cultural abjections of the "feminine" in Powers of Horror and Wollstonecraft's ambivalent response to popular metaphors of nature as sensual, maternal or threatening "femininity", I will argue that Wollstonecraft's sublime transcendence symbolizes or translates this abjected body of woman/nature. Chapter one suggests that the visibility of the feminine (excessive or resplendent) in Wollstonecraft's travel narrative explains tensions in her account of woman's self-governance. Chapter two examines this "translation" in the context of the Romantic (egotistical) sublime, an encounter which ultimately insists on Wollstonecraft's own position both inside and outside of culture. | |
| dc.format.extent | 80 pages | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/18074 | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.title | Nature "so akin to pleasure and pain" : abjection and sublimity in Wollstonecraft's Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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