Mary Shelley in Her Times

Prof Betty T. Bennett,Prof Stuart Curran

ISBN 10: 0801877334 / ISBN 13: 9780801877339

Edité par The Johns Hopkins University Press 2003-07-25, 2003

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• Titre: Mary Shelley in Her Times
• Éditeur: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2003-07-25
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0801877334
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780801877339
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Author of six novels, five volumes of biographical lives, two travel books, and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, Mary Shelley is largely remembered as the author of Frankenstein, as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and as the daughter of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft. This collection of essays, edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, 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 profound transition between the Romantic and Victorian eras. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of Mary Shelley's neglected novels, including Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man, and Falkner. Other topics include Mary Shelley's work in various literary genres, her editing of her husband's poetry and prose, her politics, and her trajectory as a female writer. This volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women's studies.

À propos des auteurs

Betty T. Bennett is dean of arts and sciences and professor of literature at the American University, Washington, D.C.

Stuart Curran was the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania (emeritus). The author of two critical studies of Shelley, as well as the standard bibliography on the poet, he was also for many years the editor of the Keats-Shelley Journal and the president of the Keats-Shelley Association of America.