The Cambridge companion to Mary Shelley / / edited by Esther Schor [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823/.7
• Soggetto topico: Women and literature - England - History - 19th century
• Persona (resp. second.): SchorEsther H.
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-283) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 'The Author of Frankenstein': -- Making a 'monster': an introduction to Frankenstein / Anne K. Mellor -- Frankenstein, Matilda, and the legacies of Godwin and Wollstonecraft / Pamela Clemit -- Frankenstein, feminism, and literary theory / Diane Long Hoeveler -- Frankenstein on Film / Esther Schor -- Frankenstein's futurity: from replicants to robotics / Jay Clayton -- Fictions and Myths: -- Valperga / Stuart Curran -- The last man / Kari E. Lokke -- Historical novelist / Deidre Lynch -- Falkner and other fictions / Kate Ferguson Ellis -- Stories for the Keepsake / Charlotte Sussman -- Proserpine and Midas / Judith Pascoe -- Professional Personae: -- Mary Shelley, editor / Susan J. Wolfson -- Letters: The public/private self / Betty T. Bennett -- Mary Shelley as biographer / Greg Kucich -- Mary Shelley's travel writing / Jeanne Moskal -- Mary Shelley as cultural critic / Timothy Morton.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cambridge companion to Mary Shelley
• ISBN: 1-139-81671-3; 0-511-99882-1; 1-280-16098-5; 0-511-12003-6; 0-511-20470-1; 0-511-06415-2; 0-511-32639-4; 0-511-07261-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996218146203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge companions to literature.