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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):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Mary Shelley provides a detailed study of the famous author's extensive contribution to the Gothic genre. Angela Wright examines the key novels alongside the short stories, revealing how the Gothic themes and motifs that energised Frankenstein resurface in some of Shelley's later works.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Mary Shelley: A Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)
- 2 Testimonial and Refusal in Matilda (1819)
- 3 Of Women, History and Romance in Valperga (1823)
- 4 'On Ghosts' and The Last Man: Mourning, Melancholia and Transformational Terror
- 5 Terror, Horror and Transformation: The 1831 Edition of Frankenstein and the Short Stories for The Keepsake
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783168484
- 178316848X
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