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Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser.: Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley by Esther Schor (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521007704
ISBN-139780521007702
eBay Product ID (ePID)1922727
Product Key Features
Number of Pages316 Pages
Publication NameCambridge Companion to Mary Shelley
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
SubjectWomen Authors, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
AuthorEsther Schor
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
SeriesCambridge Companions to Literature Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-046266
Dewey Edition21
Reviews'There is much here to stimulate students, but those reading Shelley for the first time should also be pointed towards the alternative critical and biographical traditions …' BARS Bulletin & Review, 'This volume brings together the best of modern approaches to Mary Shelley. The essays in it are written with clarity. As such this collection provides an excellent introduction to Mary Shelley's work and the ways in which it can be read.' British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies, "...give[s] Shelley her due as a prominent woman of letters for thirty years, not a one-book wonder." Caroline Franklin, Times Literary Supplement, "The Cambirdge Companion to Mary Shelley fulfills the admirable project of providing in one compact volume an introduction to and crticism of most of Shelley's oeuvre....this companion is an excellent introduction to such a discussion." - Staci Stone, Murray State University, South Atlantic Review, "The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, edited by Esther Schor, pulls together a lively and original collection of essays from a range of distinguished contributors. Perhaps the most striking thing about this volume is the impression it succeeds in giving of Mary Shelley not as some adjunct to Percy Bysshe (indeed, Susan Wolfson's impressive study of the editorial work she performed on her poet-husband's writings makes it clear the degree to which she shaped the poet's reception in the decades after his death), but as a radical and innovative thinker in her own right." Kate Flint, Studies in English Literature
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal823/.7
Table Of ContentChronology; Preface; Part I. 'The Author of Frankenstein': 1. Making a 'monster': an introduction to Frankenstein Anne K. Mellor; 2. Frankenstein, Matilda, and the legacies of Godwin and Wollstonecraft Pamela Clemit; 3. Frankenstein, feminism, and literary theory Diane Long Hoeveler; 4. Frankenstein on Film Esther Schor; 5. Frankenstein's futurity: from replicants to robotics Jay Clayton; Part II. Fictions and Myths: 6. Valperga Stuart Curran; 7. The last man Kari E. Lokke; 8. Historical novelist Deidre Lynch; 9. Falkner and other fictions Kate Ferguson Ellis; 10. Stories for the Keepsake Charlotte Sussman; 11. Proserpine and Midas Judith Pascoe; Part III. Professional Personae: 12. Mary Shelley, editor Susan J. Wolfson; 13. Letters: the public/private self Betty T. Bennett; 14. Mary Shelley as biographer Greg Kucich; 15. Mary Shelley's travel writing Jeanne Moskal; 16. Mary Shelley as cultural critic Timothy Morton; Further reading; Selected filmography.
SynopsisWell-known scholars review Mary Shelley's work in several contexts (literary history, aesthetic and literary culture, the legacies of her parents) and also analyze her most famous work-- Frankenstein. The contributors also examine Shelley as a biographer, cultural critic, and travel writer. The text is supplemented by a chronology, guide to further reading and select filmography., Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography., In The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, leading scholars discuss her work in several fascinating contexts: literary history, aesthetic and literary culture, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife of her most famous work, Frankenstein.
LC Classification NumberPR5398.C36 2003
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