The Other Mary Shelley : beyond Frankenstein /
The Other Mary Shelley : beyond Frankenstein /
edited by Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor.
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
- 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: ROMANTICISM AND RESISTANCE -- Mary Shelley's Sympathy and Irony: The Editor and Her Corpus -- Editorial Privilege: Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley's Audiences -- Reading Mary Shelley's Journals: Romantic Subjectivity and Feminist Criticism -- Mary Shelley and the Taming of the Byronic Hero: "Transformation" and The Deformed Transformed -- The Last Man: Apocalypse Without Millennium -- Proserpine and Midas: Gender, Genre, and Mythic Revisionism in Mary Shelley's Dramas -- Beatrice in Valperga: A New Cassandra -- God's Sister: History and Ideology in Valperga -- II: CULTURE AND CRITICISM -- Swayed by Contraries: Mary Shelley and the Everyday -- Disfiguring Economies: Mary Shelley's Short Stories -- Subversive Surfaces: The Limits of Domestic Affection in Mary Shelley's Later Fiction -- Mary Shelley in Transit -- The Last Man -- Plaguing Politics: AIDS, Deconstruction, and The Last Man -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Last Page.
Although Frankenstein has now been canonized in the Romantic classroom, less attention than ever has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works - in fact, until now the excitement of the last decade over feminist themes found in Frankenstein has helped to obscure the actual persona of its author. This collection of essays however, written by a pre-eminent assemblage of Romantic scholars, begins to sketch a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley"; the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent relationship among the various agendae of family, gender, and society, and whose narratives still resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics and culture. By analysing a previously neglected body of reviews, essays, novellas, letters, biographies, sketches, and tales, and in locating Mary Shelley as a shrewd critic of the Romantic zeitgeist, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking, complete evaluation of one of the foremost thinkers of the 19th century.
1429407611 (electronic bk.) 9781429407618 (electronic bk.) 1280526386 9781280526381 6610526389 9786610526383 (cloth)
92014568
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
1800-1899
Women and literature--History--England--19th century.
Romanticism--England.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Angleterre--19e siècle.
Romantisme--Angleterre.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Romanticism.
Women and literature.
Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus (Shelley)
England.
English fiction
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR5398 / .O87 1993eb
823/.7
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: ROMANTICISM AND RESISTANCE -- Mary Shelley's Sympathy and Irony: The Editor and Her Corpus -- Editorial Privilege: Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley's Audiences -- Reading Mary Shelley's Journals: Romantic Subjectivity and Feminist Criticism -- Mary Shelley and the Taming of the Byronic Hero: "Transformation" and The Deformed Transformed -- The Last Man: Apocalypse Without Millennium -- Proserpine and Midas: Gender, Genre, and Mythic Revisionism in Mary Shelley's Dramas -- Beatrice in Valperga: A New Cassandra -- God's Sister: History and Ideology in Valperga -- II: CULTURE AND CRITICISM -- Swayed by Contraries: Mary Shelley and the Everyday -- Disfiguring Economies: Mary Shelley's Short Stories -- Subversive Surfaces: The Limits of Domestic Affection in Mary Shelley's Later Fiction -- Mary Shelley in Transit -- The Last Man -- Plaguing Politics: AIDS, Deconstruction, and The Last Man -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Last Page.
Although Frankenstein has now been canonized in the Romantic classroom, less attention than ever has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works - in fact, until now the excitement of the last decade over feminist themes found in Frankenstein has helped to obscure the actual persona of its author. This collection of essays however, written by a pre-eminent assemblage of Romantic scholars, begins to sketch a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley"; the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent relationship among the various agendae of family, gender, and society, and whose narratives still resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics and culture. By analysing a previously neglected body of reviews, essays, novellas, letters, biographies, sketches, and tales, and in locating Mary Shelley as a shrewd critic of the Romantic zeitgeist, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking, complete evaluation of one of the foremost thinkers of the 19th century.
1429407611 (electronic bk.) 9781429407618 (electronic bk.) 1280526386 9781280526381 6610526389 9786610526383 (cloth)
92014568
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 --Criticism and interpretation.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
1800-1899
Women and literature--History--England--19th century.
Romanticism--England.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Angleterre--19e siècle.
Romantisme--Angleterre.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Romanticism.
Women and literature.
Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus (Shelley)
England.
English fiction
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR5398 / .O87 1993eb
823/.7