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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

Angela Wright

(2018)

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Abstract

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.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover Front Cover
Series Page ii
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Dedication v
Contents vii
Acknowledgements ix
Mary Shelley: A Chronology xi
Introduction 1
1 Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818) 19
2 Testimonial and Refusal in Matilda (1819) 53
3 Of Women, History and Romance in Valperga (1823) 67
4 ‘On Ghosts’ and The Last Man: Mourning, Melancholia and Transformational Terror\r 89
5 Terror, Horror and Transformation: The 1831 Edition of Frankenstein and the Short Stories for The Keepsake 109
Conclusion 121
Notes 129
Bibliography 151
Index 163
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