Maria, o i torti della donna
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera incompiuta / frammento postumo
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~46.500 parole · 221 passi
Unfinished, posthumously published novel: Godwin’s preface, bracketed interpolations and editorial notes have distinct responsibility. Completeness of the digital reproduction is a separate question.
- William Godwin — editor, editorial preface, bracketed interpolations, notes, editorial conclusion
Cita quest'opera
- APAMary Wollstonecraft. (n.d.). Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman [Maria, o i torti della donna]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/mary-wollstonecraft/maria-or-the-wrongs-of-woman
- MLAMary Wollstonecraft. Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman [Maria, o i torti della donna]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/mary-wollstonecraft/maria-or-the-wrongs-of-woman.
- ChicagoMary Wollstonecraft. Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman [Maria, o i torti della donna]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/mary-wollstonecraft/maria-or-the-wrongs-of-woman.
Riferimento all’edizione riprodotta. SigPhi è la riproduzione digitale. Anno, editore e traduttore compaiono quando noti; «n.d.» indica un anno sconosciuto.
Di che cosa tratta
Unfinished, posthumously published novel: Godwin’s preface, bracketed interpolations and editorial notes have distinct responsibility. Completeness of the digital reproduction is a separate question.
Contesto e storia
Posthumous unfinished novel, after the edition of 1798. William Godwin’s editorial preface, bracketed additions, notes and conclusion are distinct from Wollstonecraft’s authorial preface and narrative. Unwritten chapters are not an ingestion omission.
Questa scheda non è ancora tradotta: il testo qui sopra è l'originale inglese.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
In many instances I could have made the incidents more dramatic, would I have sacrificed my main object, the desire of exhibiting the misery and oppression, peculiar to women, that arise out of the partial laws and customs of society. In the invention of the story, this view restrained my fancy; and the history ought rather to be considered, as of woman, than of an individual. The sentiments I have embodied. In many works of this species, the hero is allowed to be mortal, and to become wise and virtuous as well as happy, by a train of events and circumstances. The heroines, on the contrary, are to be born immaculate, and to act like goddesses of wisdom, just come forth highly finished Minervas from the head of Jove. [The following is an extract of a letter from the author to a friend, to whom she communicated her manuscript.] For my part, I cannot suppose any situation more distressing, than for a woman of sensibility, with an improving mind, to be bound to such a man as I have described for life; obliged to renounce all the humanizing affections, and to avoid cultivating her taste, lest her perception of grace and refinement of sentiment, should sharpen to agony the pangs of disappointment. Love, in which the imagination mingles its bewitching colouring, must be fostered by delicacy. I should despise, or rather call her an ordinary woman, who could endure such a husband as I have sketched. …