Author : Lucy Morrison
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,63 MB
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 031330159X
This reference contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries detailing the life and work of Mary Shelley. Some of the entries briefly contextualize their topics, while others offer more extensive discussions.
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley reveal a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. They date from October 1814 - shortly after her elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley - through September 1850, five months before her death. Her correspondents' names are familiar - Shelley himself, Byron, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, General Lafayette, Sir Walter Scott - and the letters abound with anecdotes about such eminent figures as her parents (William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft), Keats, Washington Irving, and Charles and Mary Lamb. Publication of the widely acclaimed three-volume edition of Mary Shelley's letters was completed in 1988, containing all 1,276 of her known extant letters. Now Betty T. Bennett has selected 230 of those letters to give an overview of Mary Shelley's life as she was seeing it, living it, and recording it. Bennett also includes an introductory essay that sketches a portrait of Mary Shelley, her world, and her place in the history of literature and letters.
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Travel
ISBN :
History of a Six Weeks' Tour is a travel narrative by Percy Bysshe Shelley. It takes us on a journey through France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland, while adding an element of romantic philosophy into the mix.
Author : Fiona Sampson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1681778211
We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person—what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life.In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.
Author : Lucy Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313072329
Frankenstein is one of the most popular classroom texts in high school and college, and Shelley's other works are attracting renewed attention. This reference is a comprehensive guide to her life and career. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries about her works, friends, relatives, residences, fictional characters, allusions, and more. Mary Shelley has only recently emerged from the shadows of her famous parents, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, and that of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Today, Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is one of the most popular classroom texts in high school and college, and Mary Shelley's other works are attracting renewed attention. These works reveal much about the Romantic literary period and Shelley's ongoing development as a writer. In addition to her novels, Shelley wrote short stories, poems, and dramas. These texts illustrate the difficulties of a shifting literary marketplace, while her travel writings illuminate her rich personal experiences and keen intellect. This reference is a comprehensive guide to her life and career. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries about her works, friends, relatives, residences, fictional characters, allusions, and more. Some entries briefly identify and contextualize their topics, while others offer more extensive discussions. Many entries cite sources of further information, and the volume closes with a bibliography. The work is fully cross-referenced and includes a detailed index and an appendix that discusses the sources of Shelley's quotations.
Author : L. Adam Meckler
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1443818828
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the age we call “Romantic,” wherein her texts converse with those of her family, her circle, and her contemporaries. Several essays address particularly how her texts interact with those of her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, revealing new depth and breadth to their literary partnership. Others investigate interdisciplinary perspectives, such as her pieces in The Liberal or the ways in which the figure of Scheherezade haunts her works, while several essays also consider Mary Shelley’s textual relationships with contemporaries such as Thomas Moore and John Polidori. Still others tackle topics such as geopolitical relationships and the growth of opera as an art form, considering Mary Shelley’s commentary upon such contemporary issues, while William Godwin’s textual relationship with his daughter is further investigated. This collection suggests Mary Shelley’s texts merit further investigation not only for what they reveal about their author and her oeuvre, but for the ways in which they illuminate our understanding of the contexts in which they were composed.
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 1835
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387303300
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2021-06-03
Category :
ISBN :
Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus. The tragedy is one of the last two tragedies written by Shakespeare,
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9780198125716
The Past Masters Journals of Mary Shelley database contains Shelley's journals 1814-1844 as published in the definitive Oxford University Press edition, edited by Paula R. Feldman and Diane Scott-Kilvert.
