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

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.