ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which key aspects of the identity of the traveler-writer impact on conceptualizing and writing about space by using as its main focus Mary Wollstonecraft's account of her three-month journey to Scandinavia in 1795, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. It arises from the pedagogical base of a final-year undergraduate option, "Genres of Travel"; a module which considers representations of space and mobility in a range of texts from seventeenth-century adventurers' accounts to contemporary travelogues. The teaching session, which forms the basis of the chapter focuses on gender and travel writing, and addresses how the concepts of space and identity are read and understood in relation to Wollstonecraft's pioneering work. Wollstonecraft's text has also been a subject of academic attention since the 1990s because of its representation of aesthetics and its pivotal place in a Romantic tradition of subjective and emotional literary responses to landscapes.
