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Mary Shelley in her times

Author: Betty T Bennett; Stuart Curran
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2000.
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"This collection of essays 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  Read more...
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Mary Shelley in her times.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000
(OCoLC)606458740
Named Person: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Betty T Bennett; Stuart Curran
ISBN: 0801863341 9780801863349
OCLC Number: 42863077
Description: xiii, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: "Not this time, Victor!": Mary Shelley's reversioning of Elizabeth, from Frankenstein to Falkner / Betty T. Bennett --
"To speak in Sanchean phrase": Cervantes and the politics of Mary Shelley's History of a six weeks' tour / Jeanne Moskal --
The impact of Frankenstein / William St. Clair --
From The fields of fancy to Matilda: Mary Shelley's changing conception of her novella / Pamela Clemit --
Mathilda as dramatic actress / Charles E. Robinson --
Between romance and history: possibility and contingency in Godwin, Leibniz, and Mary Shelley's Valperga / Tilottama Rajan --
Future uncertain: the republican tradition and its destiny in Valperga / Michael Rossington --
Reading the end of the world: The last man, history, and the agency of romantic authorship / Samantha Webb --
Kindertotenlieder: Mary Shelley and the art of losing / Constance Walker --
Politicizing the personal: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and the coterie novel / Gary Kelly --
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley: the female author between public and private spheres / Mitzi Myers --
Poetry as souvenir: Mary Shelley in the annuals / Judith Pascoe --
"Trying to make it as good as I can": Mary Shelley's editing of P.B. Shelley's poetry and prose / Michael O'Neill --
Mary Shelley's Lives and the reengendering of history / Greg Kucich --
Blood sisters: Mary Shelley, Liz Lochhead, and the monster / E. Douka Kabitoglou.
Responsibility: edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran.
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This collection of essays aims to offer a more complete and complex picture of Mary Shelley than simply that of the author of "Frankenstein" and wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. They emphasize her  Read more...

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