Sense and sensibility : Mary Wollstonecraft as Active Witness to History
This article aims to show that in A Vindication of the Rights of Men Mary Wollstonecraft redefines historical practice by turning satire into a mode of historical cognition. Satire is here understood as a form of aesthetic sublimation of the violence inherent in polemical discourse. Wollstonecraft t...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2011-04-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/633 |