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| Named Person: | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Esther H Schor |
| ISBN: | 0521809843 9780521809849 0521007704 9780521007702 |
| OCLC Number: | 51978012 |
| Description: | xxi, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 'The Author of Frankenstein': -- Making a 'monster': an introduction to Frankenstein / Anne K. Mellor -- Frankenstein, Matilda, and the legacies of Godwin and Wollstonecraft / Pamela Clemit -- Frankenstein, feminism, and literary theory / Diane Long Hoeveler -- Frankenstein on Film / Esther Schor -- Frankenstein's futurity: from replicants to robotics / Jay Clayton -- Fictions and Myths: -- Valperga / Stuart Curran -- The last man / Kari E. Lokke -- Historical novelist / Deidre Lynch -- Falkner and other fictions / Kate Ferguson Ellis -- Stories for the Keepsake / Charlotte Sussman -- Proserpine and Midas / Judith Pascoe -- Professional Personae: -- Mary Shelley, editor / Susan J. Wolfson -- Letters: The public/private self / Betty T. Bennett -- Mary Shelley as biographer / Greg Kucich -- Mary Shelley's travel writing / Jeanne Moskal -- Mary Shelley as cultural critic / Timothy Morton. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge companions to literature. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Esther Schor. |
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Abstract:
In The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, leading scholars discuss her work in several fascinating contexts.
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'This volume brings together the best of modern approaches to Mary Shelley. The essays in it are written with clarity. As such this collection provides an excellent introduction to Mary Shelley's work and the ways in which it can be read.' British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies 'There is much here to stimulate students, but those reading Shelley for the first time should also be pointed towards the alternative critical and biographical traditions ...' BARS Bulletin & Review Read more...
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- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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