What one or two ideas about government given in the readings for
19 Sept. impressed you as interesting or valuable, and why? List
three of the ways, according to Mary Wollstonecraft, that women
differ from men, telling us her explanation as to why they
differ. Do you agree or disagree? One thing you might consider
here is the Gender Divide as it has been explained by Anne
Snitow. In feminism, there is a divide between |difference
feminists||equality feminists| On which side of the divide is
Wollstonecraft? (Snitow will help you figure this out if you
read the whole excerpt from her essay on the Gender Divide,
available by clicking here.) Describe the effects that
sentimental descriptions of the plight of slaves have on
readers: how do they affect you? does this kind of art promote
action or inaction? Why? List two or three of the claims that
Joanna Baillie makes about what good art looks like or how it
works. Do you agree? According to Wordsworth's The Prelude, how
does imagination work? How are imaginative w