Mary Wollstonecraft’s “Love of Mankind” and Cosmopolitan Suffering in Letters Written During A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Steiner, Enit Karafili

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“…In her later work, she identifies a cosmopolitan thread running through Wollstonecraft's feminist thought, which ‘prioritizes universal human rights, especially the basic right to agency itself, yet subsequently examines how gender and other cultural differences affect the differential and unjust treatment of women within and across societies’ (Hunt Botting, 2016, p. 12). This cosmopolitan strain in Wollstonecraft's works also has ecocritical potential, as Enit Karafili Steiner has demonstrated in her analysis of Short Residence as the expression of an ‘empathy‐based […] cosmopolitics’ alert to planetary as well as political crisis (Steiner, 2019, p. 5; on ecofeminist praxis, see also Carretero González, 2013). Tomaselli (2021) recognises that, for Wollstonecraft, ‘love of humanity’ is a component of patriotism, and that her Revolutionary works are marked by ‘a cosmopolitanism that can be detected in her earlier writings’ (p. 175).…”

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Across disciplines, languages, and nations: Recent scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft

Kirkley

2022

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In the last 4 decades, Mary Wollstonecraft has been brought from the margins of Western literary history to assume her place as a feminist foremother, radical icon, and familiar meme. As the range of disciplinary responses to Wollstonecraft's writing expands, our knowledge is deepening of her intellectual landscapes and her local and transnational networks. Diversification of expertise has also led to closer, interdisciplinary scrutiny of her works, including texts that have previously suffered neglect because of their apparent irrelevance to her feminism. Researchers increasingly recognise her transnational outlook, and this recognition has prompted intersectional reflections on her feminist legacy in the wake of Brexit and Black Lives Matter. A growing body of criticism is also revising the longstanding myth of her posthumous invisibility after the publication of Godwin's Memoirs, drawing attention to the persistent engagement with her works by key thinkers during the nineteenth century as well as her multiple afterlives in translation.

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