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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822701503321

Titolo

Mary Shelley in her times / / edited by Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

0-8018-7462-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

823.7

Soggetti

Literature and history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1: ''Not this time, Victor''; 2: ''To speak in Sanchean phrase''; 3: The Impact of Frankenstein; 4: From The Fields of Fancy to Matilda; 5: Mathilda as Dramatic Actress; 6: Between Romance and History; 7: Future Uncertain; 8: Reading the End of the World; 9: Kindertotenlieder; 10: Politicizing the Personal; 11: MaryWollstonecraft Godwin Shelley; 12: Poetry as Souvenir; 13: ''Trying to make it as good as I can''; 14: Mary Shelley's Lives and the Reengendering of History; 15: Blood Sisters; Notes; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women's studies.