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Work #1191 · Late

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Mary Wollstonecraft
1795-96 (composed), 1796 (published) · English
Travel letters / Proto-Romantic prose · English Enlightenment / Proto-Romanticism / Early feminism

Wollstonecraft's 1796 travel-letters — proto-Romantic reflection from her Scandinavian business journey

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Attribute Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Late)
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Partial
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Personal
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

The 1795-96 narrative-letter period; Wollstonecraft's 1796 publication moment.

Space

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark) as the geographical setting; the broader European Enlightenment.

Matter

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

The embodied Wollstonecraft as participant-observer of landscape and society.

Observer

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Wollstonecraft as proper-philosophical-personal observer.

Energy

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

The reflective-personal-aesthetic energies of the letters.

Information

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

The 25-letter content of travel observation, philosophical reflection, personal disclosure.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letters from Sweden has been variously assessed — defenders see major proto-Romantic prose achievement, sometimes contested as too-personal in its emotional disclosures by readers expecting only the political-philosophical Wollstonecraft.