{"title":"Reorienting Sympathy: Rereading Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men","authors":"S. Botz","doi":"10.1353/srm.2021.0021","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper offers a revisionist interpretation of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men by attending to the distinct, if idiosyncratic sympathetic strands of her engagement with Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Recognizing Wollstonecraft as both a uniquely oriented reviewer of Burke and a political theorist, I trace how her defense of reason does not, as is often suggested, displace feeling, but rather draws upon it to fashion heretofore unconsidered political possibilities. In light of the Revolution’s ambitious revision of essential political interactions between subjects, Wollstonecraft’s proposal recognizes sympathy as an imperative world-building practice.","PeriodicalId":44848,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","volume":"60 1","pages":"331 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/srm.2021.0021","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This paper offers a revisionist interpretation of Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men by attending to the distinct, if idiosyncratic sympathetic strands of her engagement with Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Recognizing Wollstonecraft as both a uniquely oriented reviewer of Burke and a political theorist, I trace how her defense of reason does not, as is often suggested, displace feeling, but rather draws upon it to fashion heretofore unconsidered political possibilities. In light of the Revolution’s ambitious revision of essential political interactions between subjects, Wollstonecraft’s proposal recognizes sympathy as an imperative world-building practice.
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Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.
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