TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright,Angela
TI  - Mary Shelley
T2  - Gothic authors: critical revisions
SN  - 9781783168460
AV  - PR5398 .W75 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
KW  - Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,
KW  - Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English fiction
KW  - 19th century
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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