Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal
Author | : Mary Wollstonecraft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : Scholars |
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Author | : Mary Wollstonecraft |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : Scholars |
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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.
Author | : Samuel Halkett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English |
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Author | : Cambridge (Mass.). High School. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs |
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Author | : Cambridge High School (CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1853 |
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Author | : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-03-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192543725 |
By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened...' Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written. It tells the dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs a being from dead body parts, and animates this creature. The results, for Victor and for his family, are catastrophic. Written when Mary Shelley was just eighteen, Frankenstein was inspired by the ghost stories and vogue for Gothic literature that fascinated the Romantic writers of her time. She transformed these supernatural elements an epic parable that warned against the threats to humanity posed by accelerating technological progress. Published for the 200th anniversary, this edition, based on the original 1818 text, explains in detail the turbulent intellectual context in which Shelley was writing, and also investigates how her novel has since become a byword for controversial practices in science and medicine, from manipulating ecosystems to vivisection and genetic modification. As an iconic study of power, creativity, and, ultimately, what it is to be human, Frankenstein continues to shape our thinking in profound ways to this day.
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.