Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley : an introduction
In this book, the author offers an extensively expanded version of the introduction she wrote for Pickering and Chatto's eight volume set, The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Along with her retelling of Mary Shelley's eventful life story, the author gives us a fresh reading of Frankenstein in the context of its author's full career. She also discusses a variety of Mary Shelley's lesser known works, including Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man, Perkin Warbeck, Lodore, Falkner, and her travel books. The result is a compelling portrait of Mary Shelley as she saw herself--an inventive, irreverent writer whose desire for political and social reform was at the heart of her literary expression for three decades
Print Book, English, 1998
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 177 pages ; 21 cm
9780801859755, 9780801859762, 0801859751, 080185976X
38595508
Early journeys, 1797-1818
Italy, 1818-1823
Return to England, 1823-1837
Last journeys, 1837-1851
"A revision and expansion of the introduction to The novels and selected works of Mary Shelley, published in 1996 by Pickering and Chatto"--Title page verso