Mary Shelley in Her Times

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, Mary Shelley is largely remembered as the author of Frankenstein, as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. This collection of essays, edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, offers a more complete and complex picture of Mary Shelley, emphasizing the full range and significance of her writings in terms of her own era and ours. Mary Shelley in Her Times brings fresh insight to the life and work of an often neglected or misunderstood writer who, the editors remind us, spent nearly three decades at the center of England's literary world during the country's profound transition between the Romantic and Victorian eras. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of Mary Shelley's neglected novels, including Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man, and Falkner. Other topics include Mary Shelley's work in various literary genres, her editing of her husband's poetry and prose, her politics, and her trajectory as a female writer.This volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women's studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-10-24
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801877339

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Betty T. Bennett is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Literature at American University. She is the editor of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction, available from Johns Hopkins. Stuart Curran is Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Poetic Form and British Romanticism. A collection of essays about Percy Bysshe Shelley compiled by Bennett and Curran, Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World, is also available from Johns Hopkins.

Preface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsChapter 1. "Not This Time, Victor!": Mary Shelley's Reversioning of Elizabeth, From Frankenstein to FalknerChapter 2. "To Speak In Sanchean Phrase": Cervantes And The Politics of Mary Shelley's History Of A Six Weeks' TourChapter 3. The Impact of FrankensteinChapter 4. From The Fields Of Fancy to Matilda: Mary Shelley's Changing Conception of Her NovellaChapter 5. Mathilda as Dramatic ActressChapter 6. Between Romance and History: Possibility and Contingency in Godwin, Leibniz, and Mary Shelley's ValpergaChapter 7. Future Uncertain: The Republican Tradition and Its Destiny in ValpergaChapter 8. Reading the End of the World: The Last Man, History, and the Agency of Romantic AuthorshipChapter 9. Kindertotenlieder: Mary Shelley and the Art of Losing Chapter 10. Politicizing the Personal: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and the Coterie Novel Chapter 11. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley: The Female Author Between Public And Private SpheresChapter 12. Poetry as Souvenir: Mary Shelley In The AnnualsChapter 13. "Trying To Make It As Good As I Can": Mary Shelley's Editing of P. B. Shelley's Poetry and Prose Chapter 14. Mary Shelley's Lives and Reengendering of HistoryChapter 15. Blood Sisters: Mary Shelley, Liz Lochhead, and the MonsterNotesContributorsIndex

This is a book to be commended not only for the range of topics it offers, but for the way in which it represents a wide range of styles and approaches. -- John Williams British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review Mary Shelley in Her Times contains some of the strongest essays of recent times on Shelley's work... A valuable piece of criticism. -- Ashley Chantler Byron Journal Refreshing, alternative readings to the until now predominantly psychobiographical approach... The essays by William St Clair and the late Mitzi Myers are particular highlights in this solid collection. -- Heidi Thomson Yearbook of English Studies 2004