Mary Shelley /
Wright, Angela, 1969 May 14-
Mary Shelley / Angela Wright. - xv, 167 pages : illustration ; 23 cm. - Gothic authors: critical revisions. . - Gothic authors: critical revisions. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-161) and index.
Introduction -- Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) -- Testimonial and refusal in Matilda (1819) -- Of women, history and romance in Valperga (1823) -- 'On ghosts' and The Last Man: mourning, melancholia and transformational terror -- Terror, horror and transformation: the 1831 edition of Frankenstein and the short stories for The Keepsake.
Mary Shelley reappraises the significance of Frankenstein alongside other works by Shelley which could be considered to revise the significance and fluctuating meanings of G̀othic' during the Romantic period. It offers scholarly, fresh readings of the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein, as well as chapters upon the fiction that Shelley composed in between both editions, and during the same decade as its second edition. In its broader examination of Mary Shelley's work, this study is the first of its kind within the field of Gothic studies. Alongside sustained explorations of Frankenstein, Matilda, Valperga and The Last Man, the volume Mary Shelley reappraises some of the shorter essays and tales that the author composed for contemporary magazines. Angela Wright argues that the time is now right for a re-examination of the extent to which Shelley participated in and redirected the Gothic tradition.
9781783168460 1783168463 9781786831736 1786831732
(Coutts)038220804
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 --Criticism and interpretation.
1800-1899
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
PR5398 / .W75 2018
Mary Shelley / Angela Wright. - xv, 167 pages : illustration ; 23 cm. - Gothic authors: critical revisions. . - Gothic authors: critical revisions. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-161) and index.
Introduction -- Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) -- Testimonial and refusal in Matilda (1819) -- Of women, history and romance in Valperga (1823) -- 'On ghosts' and The Last Man: mourning, melancholia and transformational terror -- Terror, horror and transformation: the 1831 edition of Frankenstein and the short stories for The Keepsake.
Mary Shelley reappraises the significance of Frankenstein alongside other works by Shelley which could be considered to revise the significance and fluctuating meanings of G̀othic' during the Romantic period. It offers scholarly, fresh readings of the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein, as well as chapters upon the fiction that Shelley composed in between both editions, and during the same decade as its second edition. In its broader examination of Mary Shelley's work, this study is the first of its kind within the field of Gothic studies. Alongside sustained explorations of Frankenstein, Matilda, Valperga and The Last Man, the volume Mary Shelley reappraises some of the shorter essays and tales that the author composed for contemporary magazines. Angela Wright argues that the time is now right for a re-examination of the extent to which Shelley participated in and redirected the Gothic tradition.
9781783168460 1783168463 9781786831736 1786831732
(Coutts)038220804
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 --Criticism and interpretation.
1800-1899
Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
PR5398 / .W75 2018