Mary Shelley in Her Times

Author/creator Bennett, Betty T. Editor
Other author Curran, Stuart Editor
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Description328 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in.
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Summary Annotation <p>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 <i>Frankenstein</i>, 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. <i>Mary Shelley in Her Times</i> 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.</p><p>The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of Mary Shelley's neglected novels, including <i>Matilda</i>, <i>Valperga</i>, <i>The Last Man</i>, and <i>Falkner</i>. 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.</p>
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LCCN 99057227
ISBN9780801877339
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