Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
Wollstonecraft's unfinished 1798 posthumous novel — fictional exposition of the legal and social wrongs done to women
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (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 | Passive |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| 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
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
The 1796-97 composition period; the late-eighteenth-century English-legal setting; the September 1797 author-death and 1798 posthumous publication.
Space
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
England as legal-social-political setting; the private madhouse as proper narrative setting.
Matter
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
The embodied women — Maria, Jemima — whose conditions the novel records.
Observer
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
The proto-feminist novel-reader as proper political-philosophical addressee.
Energy
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
The political-emotional-narrative energies of the proto-feminist-novelistic work.
Information
Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman
The narrative content as proper proto-feminist political-philosophical material.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
Maria has been variously assessed — defenders see major proto-feminist novel and proper political-philosophical complement to the Vindication; the unfinished state limits some assessments. Recent feminist-scholarly attention has substantially elevated its canonical standing.