Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1609778804
The adventures of the early fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani, a real historical figure who became the lord of Lucca and conquered Florence. In the novel, his armies threaten the fictional fortress of Valperga, governed by Countess Euthanasia, the woman he loves. He forces her to choose between her feelings for him and political liberty.
Author : Esther Schor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826735
Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.
Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2674 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
Mary Shelley's 'The Complete Novels of Mary Shelley' is a collection of thought-provoking and groundbreaking works that capture the essence of the Romantic movement. Through her uniquely imaginative narratives, Shelley delves into complex themes such as the consequences of playing God, the nature of humanity, and the pursuit of knowledge at any cost. Her writing style is characterized by rich language, vivid imagery, and a deep exploration of philosophical ideas, making her novels a timeless contribution to English literature. Whether you are familiar with her most famous work, 'Frankenstein', or are new to her lesser-known novels, this collection offers a comprehensive look at Shelley's work and the societal concerns that shaped her writing. Mary Shelley's ability to challenge societal norms and provoke introspection will leave readers captivated and inspired by her revolutionary storytelling. 'The Complete Novels of Mary Shelley' is a must-read for those seeking to engage with thought-provoking literature that continues to resonate with contemporary audiences.
Author : Jane Blumberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349118419
Mary Shelley's Early Novels seeks to redress the commonly held view that Mary Shelley was simply another mouthpiece for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her most challenging and ambitious novels; Frankenstein, Valperga, and The Last Man, are examined in the light of her intellectual relationship with Percy Shelley. We see the way in which these novels reflect her gradual rejection of his radical tenets in an assertion of her own intellectual and ideological independence.
Author : Sharon Lynne Joffe
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820495064
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author : Audrey Fisch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 1993-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195360230
Although Frankenstein is now widely taught in classes on Romanticism, little attention has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works. Indeed the excitement of the last decade at feminist approaches to Frankenstein has ironically obscured the persona of its author. This collection of essays, written by a preeminent group of Romantic scholars, sketches a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley": the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent interplay among issues of family, gender, and society, and whose writings resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics, culture, and feminism. By analyzing a previously neglected body of novels, novellas, reviews, travel writing, essays, letters, biographies, and tales, and by emphasizing Mary Shelley's shrewd assessment of Romanticism, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking evaluation of one of the foremost cultural critics of the nineteenth century.
Author : Charlene Bunnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136713573
This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels.
Author : Lisa Kasmer
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1611474965
Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women’s writing. At a time when women’s participation in the republic of letters was both celebrated and reviled, these authors took cues from developments that revolutionized British history writing to push the limits of narrated history to respond to contemporary national politics. Through an examination of the conventions of historical and literary genres; historiography during the period; and the gendering of civic and literary roles, this study shows not only a social, political, and literary lineage among women’s history writing and fiction but also among women’s writing and the writing of history.
Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226752280
In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was Maurice, the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein, Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the world's greatest romantic poets.
Author : Michael E. Schiefelbein
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780865547209
This book explores the effect of Catholicism on the imagination and the fiction of Protestant novelists in England during the decades surrounding Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the reestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England (1850). This book examines anti-Catholicism in popular and respected novelists such as Scott and Dickens, showing the secret attraction to Catholicism of staunch anti-Catholic Protestants.
