Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, Volume 3

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, Volume 3
Author: Nora Crook
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2020-04-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000748332

This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her.

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, Volume 2

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, Volume 2
Author: Lisa Vargo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2020-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1000748324

This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her.

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings
Author: Nora Crook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1909
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000743861

This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her.

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, Volume 4

Mary Shelley's Literary Lives and Other Writings, Volume 4
Author: Nora Crook
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2020-04-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000748340

This collection covers the lyrical poetry of Mary Shelley, as well as her writings for Lardner's "Cabinet Cyclopaedia of Biography" and some other materials only recently attributed to her.

Mary's Monster

Mary's Monster
Author: Lita Judge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-01-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1626725004

A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.

Politics of Romanticism

Politics of Romanticism
Author: Zoe Beenstock
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-04-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474410235

The Politics of Romanticism examines the relationship between two major traditions which have not been considered in conjunction: British Romanticism and social contract philosophy. She argues that an emerging political vocabulary was translated into a literary vocabulary in social contract theory, which shaped the literature of Romantic Britain, as well as German Idealism, the philosophical tradition through which Romanticism is more usually understood. Beenstock locates the Romantic movement's coherence in contract theory's definitive dilemma: the critical disruption of the individual and the social collective. By looking at the intersection of the social contract, Scottish Enlightenment philosophy, and canonical works of Romanticism and its political culture, her book provides an alternative to the model of retreat which has dominated accounts of Romanticism of the last century.

Autobiographies of Others

Autobiographies of Others
Author: Lucia Boldrini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1136283250

In this volume, Boldrini examines "heterobiography"—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely employed to reflect critically on the historical and philosophical understanding of the human; on individual identity; and on the power relationships that define the subject. In such texts, the grammatical first person becomes the site of an encounter, a stage where the relationships between historical, fictional and authorial subjectivities are played out and explored in the ‘double I’ of author and narrating historical character, of fictional narrator and historical person. Boldrini considers the ethical implications of assuming another’s first-person voice, and the fraught issue of authorial responsibility. Constructions of the body are examined in relation to the material evidence of the subject’s existence. Texts studied include Malouf’s An Imaginary Life, Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang, Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Adair’s The Death of the Author, Banti’s Artemisia, Vázquez Montalbán’s Autobiografía del general Franco. Also discussed, among others: Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian, Tabucchi’s The Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa, Giménez-Bartlett’s Una habitación ajena (A Room of Someone Else’s).

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley
Author: Catherine Reef
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1328526879

This YA biography offers “a thorough, sensitive portrayal of one of literature’s most remarkable authors, illustrated with period portraits and engravings” (Kirkus). Most famous for her iconic tale of gothic horror, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley led a life that could itself have been a gothic novel. This “fascinating, scandal-rich” biography recounts a story full of drama, death, and one of the strangest romances in literary history (Booklist). Raised by her father, the political philosopher William Godwin, Shelley ran away to Lake Geneva with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was only sixteen years old. It was there, during a cold and wet summer, that she first imagined her story about a mad scientist who brought a corpse back to life. Success soon followed for Mary, but also great tragedy and misfortune. In Mary Shelley, Catherine Reef brings this passionate woman, brilliant writer, and forgotten feminist into crisp focus, detailing a life that was remarkable both before and after the publication of her immortal masterpiece.

Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Author: Helen M. Buss
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 088920943X

Pioneers in life writing, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1818 ), are now widely regarded as two of the leading writers of the Romantic period. They are both responsible for opening up new possibilities for women in genres traditionally dominated by men. This volume brings together essays on Wollstonecraft’s and Shelley’s life writing by some of the most prominent scholars in Canada, Australia, and the United States. It also includes a full-length play by award-winning Canadian playwright Rose Scollard. Together, the essays and the play explore the connections between mother and daughter, between writing and life, and between criticism and creation. They offer a new understanding of two important writers, of a literary period, and of emergent modes of life writing. Essayists include Judith Barbour, Betty T. Bennett, Anne K. Mellor, Charles E. Robinson, Eleanor Ty, and Lisa Vargo. Among the works discussed are Wollstonecraft’s Vindication, Letters from Norway, and Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman; William Godwin’s Memoirs of Wollstonecraft; and Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Last Man, Ladore, and Rambles in Germany and Italy.