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The kinship coterie and the literary endeavors of the women in the Shelley circle / Sharon Lynne Joffe.

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Format:
Book
Thesis/Dissertation
Author/Creator:
Joffe, Sharon Lynne.
Series:
Studies in nineteenth-century British literature 1071-0124 ; v. 24.
Studies in nineteenth-century British literature, 1071-0124 ; v. 24
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Family.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879--Correspondence.
Clairmont, Claire.
Godwin, Fanny Imlay--Correspondence.
Godwin, Fanny Imlay.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797--Influence.
Wollstonecraft, Mary.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
Clairmont, Claire, 1798-1879.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Motherhood in literature.
Mothers and daughters in literature.
English prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
English prose literature.
English prose literature--Women authors.
Women authors, English--19th century--Family relationships.
Women authors, English.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
Families.
Criticism and interpretation.
Genre:
Correspondence.
Academic theses.
Personal correspondence.
Physical Description:
xiv, 205 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Peter Lang, [2007]
Contents:
"Beyond the(ir) domestic": defining the kinship coterie
"Without a mother's care": Mary Wollstonecraft and the cult of motherhood
"Expressions in my mother's letters": responses to maternity in Mary Shelley's early fiction
"Cruelty beyond compare": maternal absence and deprivation in Mary Shelley's Lodore and Falkner
"My unhappy life": the letters of Fanny Imlay
"In misery she spend her life": Claire Clairmont and the kinship coterie
"Let me hear every Saturday from you": a coda to Claire Clairmont's participation in the kinship coterie
"I am constantly thinking of you
": Maria Gisborne as surrogate to Mary Shelley
"Our own domestic circle": the Brontës and their art
"Be explicit when you write": concluding the kinship coterie.
Notes:
Originally presented as author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-200) and index.
ISBN:
0820495069
9780820495064
OCLC:
77476475

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