Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views.

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Presents a collection of critical essays about the works of the British author, focusing on her famous novel, ""Frankenstein.""

Contents:

Indelible impressions : gender and language in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Ashley J. Cross

Mary Shelley's letters : the public/private self / Betty T. Bennett

Responsible creativity and the "modernity" of Mary Shelley's Prometheus / Harriet Hustis

Altered by a thousand distortions : dream-work in Mary Shelley's early novels / L. Adam Mekler

Frankenstein, invisibility, and nameless dread / Lee Zimmerman

Mary Shelley's afterlives : biography and invention / Patricia Duncker

This thing of darkness : racial discourse in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Allan Lloyd-Smith

Family, humanity, polity : theorizing the basis and boundaries of political community in Frankenstein / Colene Bentley

Hidden voices : language and ideology in philosophy of language of the long eighteenth century and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Jonathan Jones.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-04358-7

9786612043581

1-4381-1332-3

OCLC:

742332844