Charlotte Gordon

Mary Shelley: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores the context and key themes in the life and work of this courageous, complicated, and accomplished woman.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 172mm x 112mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 125g
• ISBN-13: 9780198869191
• ISBN-10: 0198869193
• Artikelnr.: 62350870

Autorenporträt

Charlotte Gordon is the Distinguished Professor of English at Endicott College. An award-winning author, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Her latest book, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle award. She is also the author of Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Story of America's First Poet (2005), and The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths (2009). Most recently, she has written the Introduction to Penguin's re-issue of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Legacies
2: Gothic rebellion
3: Frankenstein
4: Early female narrators in A History of a Six Weeks Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, and Holland and Mathilda (1817-1821)
5: Valperga, The Last Man, and Perkin Warbeck
6: The final work, 1835-1844
Further Reading
Index