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Mary Shelley / Angela Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, Angela, 1969 May 14- author.
- Series:
- Gothic authors: critical revisions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre).
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 167 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Mary Shelley reappraises the significance of Frankenstein alongside other works by Shelley which could be considered to revise the significance and fluctuating meanings of `Gothic' during the Romantic period. It offers scholarly, fresh readings of the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein, as well as chapters upon the fiction that Shelley composed in between both editions, and during the same decade as its second edition. In its broader examination of Mary Shelley's work, this study is the first of its kind within the field of Gothic studies. Alongside sustained explorations of Frankenstein, Matilda, Valperga and The Last Man, the volume Mary Shelley reappraises some of the shorter essays and tales that the author composed for contemporary magazines. Angela Wright argues that the time is now right for a re-examination of the extent to which Shelley participated in and redirected the Gothic tradition.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Testimonial and refusal in Matilda (1819)
- Of women, history and romance in Valperga (1823)
- 'On ghosts' and The Last Man: mourning, melancholia and transformational terror
- Terror, horror and transformation: the 1831 edition of Frankenstein and the short stories for The Keepsake.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-161) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783168460
- 1783168463
- 9781786831736
- 1786831732
- OCLC:
- 1021852360
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