This is a unique selection of the works of Mary Shelley, adding to Frankenstein some of her other works which have not been readily available. The volume includes the novella Mathilda, (an extraordinary story of incest, guilt, and responsibility), selections from her short stories, essays, reviews, letters, and poems, plus a selected bibliography.
This lively history of the Frankenstein myth, illuminated by dozens of pictures and illustrations, is told with skill and humor. Hitchcock uses film, literature, history, science, and even punk music to help readers understand the meaning of this monster made by man.
This biography of Mary Shelley sees her as a remarkably mature woman married to an egotistical and unstable man, emphasizing Mary Shelley's heroism in the face of great difficulty--the death of three of her four children, early widowhood, poverty, and the scorn of society. Miranda Seymour also reveals some of the biographical roots of FRANKENSTEIN ...
Bennett's lush reimagining of the life of Mary Shelley--on the eve of her authorship of the classic gothic novel "Frankenstein"--is a gripping story of passionate young love, poetic history, and the most enduring horror story of our time.
Mary Shelley wrote this story of a lost boy in 1820,after three of her own children died. Never published in Shelley's lifetime, it was discovered in 1997.
Written in 1816 when she was only 19, for a horror-writing contest suggested by Byron, Mary Shelley's novel of "the modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life created in the laboratory. A frightening creation myth for our own time, "Frankenstein" remains one of the greatest horror stories ever written, and an ...
As science penetrates the secrets of nature, with each discovery generating new questions, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" will sound its note of warning. And as the pace of scientific progress has increased, so have concerns about retaining control of the new technologies that are reshaping our sense of ourselves as human. Many of these ...
Studying 'genre' is perhaps one of the most familiar ways of approaching literary texts, and the realist novel is one of the most distinct genres of all. Straightforward without being simplistic, and enormously readable, The Realist Novel guides the student through the fundamentals of this enduring literary form. The contributors look at two ...
Graham Allen provides both an introduction to and review of the critical responses to Mary Shelley's major fictions, from the Romantic period to the present day, while also pushing debates forward. The book moves beyond Frankenstein, presenting new readings of other texts such as Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man and Lodore.
This collection of essays about FRANKENSTEIN contains a wide range of criticism ranging from its publication in 1818 to theoretical analyses written in the 1990s. The chapters are entitled: "'It's Alive: The Reception and Endurance of Frankenstein," "Giving Form to Dark, Shapeless Substances: Intertextuality and Ambivalence in Frankenstein," "A ...
'This book carves out a distinctive and important space in the border-zone between philosophy, literary theory, and cultural history.' Christopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy, Cardiff University 'Swift's remarkable [book] stands out as a highly theoretical study in at least two respects: its engagement with figures who ...
Life and literature were inseparable in the daily lives of the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley family. In "England's First Family of Writers", Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how and why the works of these individuals can best be understood within the context of the family unit in which they were created. Carlson's work is the first to consider their ...
While on a sleepover, Joe and Sam learn the meaning of a horror story as they get caught up in a real, live nightmare of their own! Join Joe and Sam as they come face-to-face with Frankenstein's monster, and take him back to the nineteenth century to drop him off with his creator, Mary Shelley. Will Joe and Sam fix everything with their time ...
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the familiar format. CliffsNotes on Frankenstein digs into Dr. Victor Frankenstein's scientific creation, a "hideous and ...
This book surveys the early history of one of our most important modern myths: the story of Frankenstein and the monster he created from dismembered corpses, as it appeared in fictional and other writings before its translation to the cinema screen. It examines the range of meanings which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offers in the light of the ...
Beginning with the birth of science fiction in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", Jane Donawerth takes a broad look at science fiction and utopian literature written by women. In a creative close reading of "Frankenstein", Donawerth pinpoints the gender problems that reside in the male-oriented science fiction genre and shows how Shelley and other ...
In the 1820s Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein", had among her many acquaintances two intriguing friends. One, the author David Lyndsay had published admired books, poems and short stories. The other, Walter Sholto Douglas, husband of Mary Shelley's dear friend Isabella Robinson Douglas, was an aspiring diplomat. In 1830 traces of both men ...
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The essays collected here were initially given at an international conference in honor of the bicentenary of Mary Shelley's birth. Contributors include William St. Clair, Michael O'Neill, Greg Kucich, and others.
The letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley reveal a remarkable woman living in a remarkable age. They date from October 1814 - shortly after her elopment with Percy Bysshe Shelley - through September 1850, five months before her death. Her correspondents' names are familiar - Shelley himself, Byron, Bulwer-Lytton, Disraeli, General Lafayette, Sir ...
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