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Mary Shelley’s Early Novels: ‘This Child of Imagination and Misery’
Jane Blumberg
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Description for Mary Shelley’s Early Novels: ‘This Child of Imagination and Misery’
hardcover. Seeks to redress the commonly held view that Mary Shelley was simply another mouthpiece for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, for her father, William Godwin and for the radical milieu that surrounded her. Her independence is reflected in her editing of her husband's poetry. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 495.
Mary Shelley's Early Novels seeks to redress the commonly held view that Mary Shelley was simply another mouthpiece for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her most challenging and ambitious novels; Frankenstein, Valperga, and The Last Man, are examined in the light of her intellectual relationship with Percy Shelley. We see the way in which these novels reflect her gradual rejection of his radical tenets in an assertion of her own intellectual and ideological independence.
Mary Shelley's Early Novels seeks to redress the commonly held view that Mary Shelley was simply another mouthpiece for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her most challenging and ambitious novels; Frankenstein, Valperga, and The Last Man, are examined in the light of her intellectual relationship with Percy Shelley. We see the way in which these novels reflect her gradual rejection of his radical tenets in an assertion of her own intellectual and ideological independence.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333534090
SKU
V9780333534090
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