My
collection of books written by Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan)
Revolutionary philosophy of the sixteenth through
nineteenth centuries provides momentum for the transformation of consciousness,
circuitous pathways of innovation and circularity within societal parameters,
creating awareness of cultural change, often through literary articulation.
During the long eighteenth century, Sydney Owenson constructs her national
tales by configuring lexical combinations of Irish, English and European
colloquialisms, drawing upon the historical and philosophical perceptions of
René Descartes, John Locke, and Immanuel Kant to transform her romantic
tales into narratives of political inquiry. She incorporates the German
philosophical influences of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Georg Wilhelm Friedriech
Hegel, and Arthur Schopenhauer, initiating innovation in forms of cultural
awareness.
As her writing matures, her nineteenth century
contemporary scientific approach to human dignity resonates with Auguste
Comte’s philosophy, revealing her personal experience with societal
expectations. Her voice maintains a necessary fortitude in terms of her
feminine perspective, placing Irish ideology into the center of English culture
at the onset of the Ascendancy, while she illustrates foresight in challenging
the political stance of the United Kingdom in the early decades of the
nineteenth century.
