Weekly Discussion Questions
| Session | Topic | Discussion Questions |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lyndall Gordon's Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (2005), 1-39 | Session 1 Discussion Questions |
| 2 | Gordon’s Vindication, 40-79, Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories from Real Life (1788) and William Blake’s poems “Visions of the Daughters of Albion” (1793) and “Mary” (1803) | Session 2 Discussion Questions |
| 3 | Gordon’s Vindication, 80-121, and selections from Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) | Session 3 Discussion Questions |
| 4 | Gordon's Vindication, 122-155, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), 3-33 | Session 4 Discussion Questions |
| 5 | Gordon's Vindication, 156-181, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), 34-64 | Session 5 Discussion Questions |
| 6 | Gordon's Vindication, 182-213, and selections from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's First Discourse (1750) and Second Discourse (1755) | Session 6 Discussion Questions |
| 7 | Gordon's Vindication, 214-255, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), 67-86 | Session 7 Discussion Questions |
| 8 | Gordon's Vindication, 256-290, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 87-125 | Session 8 Discussion Questions |
| 9 | Gordon's Vindication, 291-329, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 207-218, 230-241 | Session 9 Discussion Questions |
| 10 | Gordon's Vindication, 330-362, and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 242-275 | Session 10 Discussion Questions |
| 11 | Selections from Taylor's The Rights of Woman as Chimera: The Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (Routledge, 2007) [ereserves] | |
| 12 | Gordon's Vindication, 363-389, and Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, letters 1, 3, 5,6,8,11 | Session 12 Discussion Questions |
| 13 | Gordon's Vindication, 390-410, and Wollstonecraft's Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, letters 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 25 | Session 13 Discussion Questions |
| 14 | Gordon's Vindication, 411-452, and Percey Shelley's letters and poems regarding or partly inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft [ereserves] | |
| 15 | Betty Bennett's Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1-42, and Lord Byron's poems partly inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft [ereserves] | |
| 16 | No class | |
| 17 | Bennett's Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 43-65, and Mary Shelley's letters regarding Mary Wollstonecraft and the composition of Frankenstein [ereserves] | |
| 18 | Bennett's Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 67-105, and Shelley's Frankenstein, 5-24 | Session 18 Discussion Questions |
| 19 | Bennett's Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 107-121, and Shelley's Frankenstein, 24-44 | Session 19 Discussion Questions |
| 20 | Shelley's Frankenstein, 44-67, 157-160 | Session 20 Discussion Questions |
| 21 | Shelley's Frankenstein, 68-91, 160-166 | Session 21 Discussion Questions |
| 22 | Shelley's Frankenstein, 91-114, 169-173 | Session 22 Discussion Questions |
| 23 | Shelley's Frankenstein, 114-134 | Session 23 Discussion Questions |
| 24 | Taylor's Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge, 2003), chapters 2 &3 [Reserve Reading Desk] | |
| 25 | Clarke's The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters (Pimlico, 2004), selections [Reserve Reading Desk] | |
| 26 | Shelley's Frankenstein, 135-156, 169-173 | Session 26 Discussion Questions |
| 27 | Student presentations on research projects | |
| 28 | Student presentations on research projects | |
| 29 | Student presentations on research projects | |
| 30 | Student presentations on research projects |
Citation: Botting, E. H. (2007, January 28). Weekly Discussion Questions. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/political-science/mary-wollstonecraft-and-mary-shelley/discussion-questions/weekly-discussion-questions.
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