Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
20 p.
Publication Date
Winter 1999
Publisher
University of North Texas
Source Publication
Studies in the Novel
Source ISSN
0039-3827
Original Item ID
Shelves: PN3311 .S82 Memorial Periodicals
Abstract
Discusses the theory of trauma presented in Mary Wollstonecraft's novel 'Wrongs of Woman, Or Maria.' How the novel was both personally therapeutic for the author and historically significant for what it reveals about women's lives under patriarchy; The repeated dissection of Wollstonecraft's wounds which stem from sexual betrayal; The character of Maria as a representation of the psychological and sexual abuses that wound all women.
Recommended Citation
Hoeveler, Diane, "Reading the Wound: Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria and Trauma Theory" (1999). English Faculty Research and Publications. 164.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_fac/164
Comments
Published version. Studies in the Novel, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Winter 1999): 387-408. Publisher Link. © 1999 University of North Texas. Used with permission. Originally printed in Studies in the Novel, Volume 31, Number 4, 1999, pp. 387-408.