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Mary Shelley / Angela Wright.

By: Series: Gothic authors: critical revisionsPublisher: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xv, 167 pages : illustration ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781783168460
  • 1783168463
  • 9781786831736
  • 1786831732
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR5398 .W75 2018
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PR5398 .W75 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001482586

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.

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