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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mary Shelley in her times. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606458740 |
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| 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 is a book to be commended not only for the range of topics it offers, but for the way in which it represents a wide range of styles and approaches. -- John Williams British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review Mary Shelley in Her Times contains some of the strongest essays of recent times on Shelley's work... A valuable piece of criticism. -- Ashley Chantler Byron Journal Refreshing, alternative readings to the until now predominantly psychobiographical approach... The essays by William St Clair and the late Mitzi Myers are particular highlights in this solid collection. -- Heidi Thomson Yearbook of English Studies 2004 Read more...
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- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Literature and history -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851 -- Critique et interprétation.
- Littérature et histoire -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Femmes et littérature -- Angleterre -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft -- (1797-1851) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Littérature et histoire -- Angleterre (GB) -- 19e siècle.
- Femmes et littérature -- Angleterre (GB) -- 19e siècle.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, -- 1797-1851.
