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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• 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