Proserpine And Midas With An Biographical Introduction Annotated
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Author | : Mary W. Shelley |
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Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2021-05-05 |
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"Proserpine is a verse drama written for children by the English Romantic writers Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary wrote the blank verse drama and Percy contributed two lyric poems. Composed in 1820 while the Shelleys were living in Italy, it is often considered a partner to the Shelleys' play Midas. Proserpine was first published in the London periodical The Winter's Wreath in 1832. Whether the drama was ever intended to be staged is a point of debate among scholars.The drama is based on Ovid's tale of the abduction of Proserpine by Pluto, which itself was based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone. Mary Shelley's version focuses on the female characters. In a largely feminist retelling from Ceres's point of view, Shelley emphasises the separation of mother and daughter and the strength offered by a community of women. Ceres represents life and love, and Pluto represents death and violence. The genres of the text also reflect gender debates of the time. Percy contributed in the lyric verse form traditionally dominated by men; Mary created a drama with elements common to early nineteenth-century women's writing: details of everyday life and empathetic dialogue.Proserpine is part of a female literary tradition which, as feminist literary critic Susan Gubar describes it, has used the story of Ceres and Proserpine to re-define, to re-affirm and to celebrate female consciousness itself. However, the play has been both neglected and marginalised by critics."
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.
Author | : Esther Schor |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139826735 |
Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.
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.
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Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Total Pages | : 892 |
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Total Pages | : 1018 |
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Author | : Johanna M. Smith |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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This study focuses on the entirety of Mary Shelley's work, rather than simply discussing Frankenstein. It opens with a biographical chapter, then covers Shelley's work in poetry and drama: Frankenstein and The Last Man as protoscience fiction; historical fiction and tales; non-fiction and literary criticism; domestic sentimental fiction; and travel writing. It sets these works within the cultural context of the politics, sexual politics, and transformation of genres in nineteenth century Britain, and establishes Mary Shelley as a major literary figure who excelled in a variety of genres.
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Total Pages | : 1016 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Literary and political reviews |
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