Description
Book SynopsisThis volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women's studies.
Trade ReviewThis 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
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. "Not This Time, Victor!": Mary Shelley's Reversioning of Elizabeth, From Frankenstein to Falkner
Chapter 2. "To Speak In Sanchean Phrase": Cervantes And The Politics of Mary Shelley's History Of A Six Weeks' Tour
Chapter 3. The Impact of Frankenstein
Chapter 4. From The Fields Of Fancy to Matilda: Mary Shelley's Changing Conception of Her Novella
Chapter 5. Mathilda as Dramatic Actress
Chapter 6. Between Romance and History: Possibility and Contingency in Godwin, Leibniz, and Mary Shelley's Valperga
Chapter 7. Future Uncertain: The Republican Tradition and Its Destiny in Valperga
Chapter 8. Reading the End of the World: The Last Man, History, and the Agency of Romantic Authorship
Chapter 9. Kindertotenlieder: Mary Shelley and the Art of Losing
Chapter 10. Politicizing the Personal: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and the Coterie Novel
Chapter 11. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley: The Female Author Between Public And Private Spheres
Chapter 12. Poetry as Souvenir: Mary Shelley In The Annuals
Chapter 13. "Trying To Make It As Good As I Can": Mary Shelley's Editing of P. B. Shelley's Poetry and Prose
Chapter 14. Mary Shelley's Lives and Reengendering of History
Chapter 15. Blood Sisters: Mary Shelley, Liz Lochhead, and the Monster
Notes
Contributors
Index
