Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca - Couverture souple

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

 
9780195108828: Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0195108825 ISBN 13 : 9780195108828
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley's second novel is a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel's lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconventional approach to the genre of historical fiction, attributes that can only delight the twentieth-century reader. Shelley's mastery of the intricate details of thirteenth-century Tuscan politics is unique among women of her time, and her resolute filtering of the bloody heroics of the age through the sensibilities of two women who are destroyed by them reveals the feminist perspective missing so conspicuously from her first novel. The lastest addition to the acclaimed Women Writers in English series, this glittering novel from Romanticism's premier woman storyteller belongs on the shelves of all serious readers of English fiction.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley's second novel is a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel's lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconventional approach to the genre of historical fiction, attributes that can only delight the twentieth-century reader. Shelley's mastery of the intricate details of thirteenth-century Tuscan politics is unique among women of her time, and her resolute filtering of the bloody heroics of the age through the sensibilities of two women who are destroyed by them reveals the feminist perspective missing so conspicuously from her first novel. The lastest addition to the acclaimed Women Writers in English series, this glittering novel from Romanticism's premier woman storyteller belongs on the shelves of all serious readers of English fiction.

Revue de presse

Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and an affordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful, learned and tactful...and he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronology and selective bibliography. (The Wordsworth Circle)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195108825
ISBN 13 
9780195108828
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780192832894: Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0192832891 ISBN 13 :  9780192832894
Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 2000
Couverture souple