The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195077407 ISBN 13: 9780195077407

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Although Frankenstein is now widely taught in classes on Romanticism, little attention has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works. Indeed the excitement of the last decade at feminist approaches to Frankenstein has ironically obscured the persona of its author. This collection of essays, written by a preeminent group of Romantic scholars, sketches a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley": the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent interplay among issues of family, gender, and society, and whose writings resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics, culture, and feminism. By analyzing a previously neglected body of novels, novellas, reviews, travel writing, essays, letters, biographies, and tales, and by emphasizing Mary Shelley's shrewd assessment of Romanticism, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking evaluation of one of the foremost cultural critics of the nineteenth century.

About this title

About the Author:

Audrey Fisch is at Rutgers University. Anne K. Mellor is at University of California at Los Angeles.

Review:

"The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein is an important and honest book because it takes its readers to the point of reading Mary Shelley in ways that go beyond the ideological premises on which much of it is based."--Christianity and Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0195077407
• ISBN 13: 9780195077407
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Fisch Audrey, Mellor Anne K., Schor Esther H.