ENGL 3251H Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mary Wollstonecraft, Aristocracy, Femininity
4 Dec 2018
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Mary wollstonecraft, a vindication of the rights of women + recap. What do you think of paine and equiano"s optimism about commerce and world trade. The economy is currently a hot button issue in politics. If you agree that their projections were contradicted by history (as i suggested on monday), what should we do then with their arguments as students of literature and ideas. Economic romanticism: thinking about what the economy means to people and how it can be better. Economic realism: by the 19thc there are existing free markets but they were not a nice as paine and. More definitional paradoxes: nostalgia + progress: liberal-minded romantics tend to mix nostalgia and a high valuation of the past with a desire for progress to a new state of social existence. The temporal paradox of progress based on natural right: the theory of natural right invoked by rousseau . If progress is to reture to men and women.
