The Other Mary Shelley : Beyond Frankenstein.
This volume comprises 15 critical essays written by some of the most eminent Romantic scholars in academia. The essays survey the oeuvre of Mary Shelley as it developed beyond Frankenstein, and evaluate her career in terms of her intellectual and political accomplishments.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| ISBN: | 9780195360233 0195360230 1280526386 9781280526381 1429407611 9781429407618 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 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 CRITICISMSwayed 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.