Natural Education in Wollstonecraft’s Wrongs of Woman and Rousseau’s Emile
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20106151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Engh (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 43-57 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8282 • E-ISSN: 2573-3575 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00138282-7716136 |
| OpenAlex | W2980687368 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This essay places Wollstonecraft’s late novel Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman (1798) in conversation with Rousseau’s thought on natural education in Emile (1762). In both texts, aesthetic sensibility is a foundation of religious belief and a crucial feature of a program of natural education that aims at freedom. Education falters, however, as Rousseau’s student and Wollstonecraft’s heroine are consigned to exile by a prejudiced society. Though Rousseau and Wollstonecraft make strong claims for the moral and liberating possibilities of aesthetic sensibility, they differ in their interpretation of exile. Wollstonecraft rewrites Rousseau’s portrait of the self-sufficient exile to highlight her outcast heroine’s estrangement from the vital forces that animate life and the mind. Natural education fails in Wrongs of Woman because the cultivation of sensibility remains separate from the work of reforming the social structures that discredit women’s reason
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Conversation · Interpretation (philosophy) · Literature · Natural (archaeology) · Portrait · Psychoanalysis · Sensibility · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |