Blumberg's study of Shelley's early intellectual development reexamines her most ambitious novels Frankenstein , Valperga , and The Last Man as intellectual challenges and responses to her father's and husband's political thought, showing how, through these novels, she asserts her intellectual and ideological independence. Also examined is Shelley's competent work as editor and critic and her role as her husband's literary executor. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Mary Shelley's Early Novels: 'This Child of Imagination and Misery'

Literature & Fiction

Blumberg, Jane

History & Criticism

Univ of Iowa Pr

Mary Shelley’s Early Novels: ‘This Child of Imagination and Misery’

Contemporary

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish Percy Shelley's works and for her novel Frankenstein, which remains widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Mary Shelley's achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826), and her final two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829-46) support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father, William Godwin. (Wikipedia)

The Last Man (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Selections, 4)

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Crook, Nora

Pickering & Chatto Ltd

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