Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein

The essays in this book discuss Mary Shelley’s innovative contributions to the literary forms she worked with during her lifelong career after the publication of Frankenstein: journals, letters, travelogues, biographies, editions, poems, dramas, tales, and novels. The image of Shelley that emerges is of one who is talented, intelligent, dedicated to her craft, and a nonconformist in idea and forms.