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Mary Wollstonecraft’s cottage economics: property, political economy, and the European future
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posted on 2023-06-12, 06:37 authored by Catherine PackhamCatherine PackhamThis paper discusses the figure of the cottage throughout Wollstonecraft’s writings in the context of her ongoing critique of political economy. It explores links between Wollstonecraft and agrarian economic alternatives proposed by her radical contemporaries. Whilst the cottage is a well-recognised trope in the late eighteenth-century picturesque, this paper argues that Wollstonecraft’s cottages need to be seen in a distinct light: as embodying a critique of a particular form of economic modernity and as measuring the possibility of an alternative economic future for Europe.
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ELH: English Literary HistoryISSN
0013-8304Publisher
Johns Hopkins University PressExternal DOI
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453-474Department affiliated with
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