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Beyond her most famous creationthe nightmarish vision of Frankenstein's CreatureMary Shelley's most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last Man (1826), gives us the iconic image of a heroic survivor who narrates the history of an apocalyptic disaster in order to save humanityif not as a species, then at least as the practice of compassion or humaneness. In visual and musical arts from 1826 to the present, this postapocalyptic figure has transmogrified from the last man into the globally familiar filmic images of the invisible man and the final girl.
Reading Shelley's work against the background of epidemic literature and political thought from ancient Greece to Covid-19, Eileen M. Hunt reveals how Shelley's postapocalyptic imagination has shaped science fiction and dystopian writing from H. G. Wells,

The First Last Man

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Beyond her most famous creationthe nightmarish vision of Frankenstein's CreatureMary Shelley's most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps... Read more

    Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
    Publication Date: 4/16/2024
    ISBN13: 9780812254020, 978-0812254020
    ISBN10: 0812254023

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Beyond her most famous creationthe nightmarish vision of Frankenstein's CreatureMary Shelley's most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last Man (1826), gives us the iconic image of a heroic survivor who narrates the history of an apocalyptic disaster in order to save humanityif not as a species, then at least as the practice of compassion or humaneness. In visual and musical arts from 1826 to the present, this postapocalyptic figure has transmogrified from the last man into the globally familiar filmic images of the invisible man and the final girl.
    Reading Shelley's work against the background of epidemic literature and political thought from ancient Greece to Covid-19, Eileen M. Hunt reveals how Shelley's postapocalyptic imagination has shaped science fiction and dystopian writing from H. G. Wells,

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