The Cambridge companion to Mary Shelley / edited by Esther Schor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schor, Esther H., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851--Criticism and interpretation.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 289 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

'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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-283) and index.

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

OCLC:

57247401