Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

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Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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Collection: Cambridge Companions to Literature

Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 20th November 2003

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 5 Mb

ISBN: 9781139816717


About the Book

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

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.

Topics Covered

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.

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