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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465228503321

Autore

Mellor Anne Kostelanetz

Titolo

Mary Shelley : her life, her fiction, her monsters / / Anne K. Mellor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 1989, c1988

ISBN

1-283-54745-7

9786613859907

1-136-60934-2

0-203-43558-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

823/.7

B

Soggetti

Women and literature - England - History - 19th century

Authors, English - 19th century

Monsters in literature

Families in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Methuen, 1988.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270).

Nota di contenuto

""Cover page ""; ""Title page ""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chronology""; ""1 In Search of a Family ""; ""2 Making a Monster ""; ""3 My Hideous Progeny ""; ""4 Promethean Politics ""; ""5 A Feminist Critique of Science  ""; ""6 Usurping the Female ""; ""7 Problems of Perception ""; ""8 Love, Guilt and Reparation: The Last Man ""; ""9 Revising Frankenstein ""; ""10 Fathers and Daughters, or ""A Sexual Education"" ""; ""11 Idealizing the Bourgeois Family: Final Reflections ""

""Appendix : Percy Shelley's Revisions of the Manuscript of Frankenstein""""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.