Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Writing Lives
Herausgeber: Buss, Helen M; McWhir, Anne; MacDonald, D L

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Produktbeschreibung

Pioneers in life writing, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1818 ), are now widely regarded as two of the leading writers of the Romantic period. They are both responsible for opening up new possibilities for women in genres traditionally dominated by men. This volume brings together essays on Wollstonecraft's and Shelley's life writing by some of the most prominent scholars in Canada, Australia, and the United States. It also includes a full-length play by award-winning Canadian playwright Rose Scollard. Together, the essays and the play explore the connections between mother and daughter, between writing and life, and between criticism and creation. They offer a new understanding of two important writers, of a literary period, and of emergent modes of life writing. Essayists include Judith Barbour, Betty T. Bennett, Anne K. Mellor, Charles E. Robinson, Eleanor Ty, and Lisa Vargo. Among the works discussed are Wollstonecraft's Vindication, Letters from Norway, and Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman; William Godwin's Memoirs of Wollstonecraft; and Shelley's Frankenstein, The Last Man, Ladore, and Rambles in Germany and Italy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780889203648
• ISBN-10: 0889203644
• Artikelnr.: 33384909

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives, edited by Helen M.
Buss, D.L. Macdonald, and Anne McWhir
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Politics of Autobiography in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Gary Kelly
The Personal Pronoun as Political: Stylistics of Self-Reference in the
Vindications D.L. Macdonald
The Power of the Unnamed in You in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written
during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Syndy McMillen
Conger
Reveries of Reality: Mary Wollstonecraft's Poetics of Sensibility
Lawrence R. Kennard
"The History of My Own Heart": Inscribing Self, Inscribing Desire in
Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway Eleanor Ty
(Un)Confinements: The Madness of Motherhood in Mary Wollstonecraft's The
Wrongs of Woman S. Leigh Matthews
Mary Wollstonecraft and Harriet Jacobs: Self Possessions Jeanne Perreault
Memoirs Discourse and William Goodwin's Memoirs of the Author of A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman Helen M. Buss
A Mother's Daughter: An Intersection of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Charles E.
Robinson
Mary Shelley: Writing/Other Women in Godwin's Life Judith Barbour
Further Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: Lodore as an Imagined
Conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft Lisa Vargo
Speaking the Unspeakable: Art Criticism as Life Writing in Mary Shelley's
Rambles in Germany and Italy Jeanne Moskal
Biographical Imaginings and Mary Shelley's (Extant and Missing)
Correspondence Betty T. Bennett
Reflections on Writing on Mary Shelley's Life Anne K. Mellor
Caves of Fancy Rose Scollard
Works Cited
Index
Contributors
Judith Barbour is an honorary associate in the School of English at the
University of Sydney. She is the author of articles on Mary Shelley and
John William Polidori, and is editor of the University of Sydney electronic
edition of "Mary Shelley's Life of William Godwin," from the Shelley-Godwin
Manuscripts of the Abinger Collection deposited at the Bodleian Library,
Oxford. The internet address for this edition at the Scholarly Electronic
Text and Imaging Service (SETIS) of the University of Sydney's Fisher
Library is: http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/arts/godwin
Betty T. Bennett teaches literature at the American University, Washington,
DC. She is the author of Mary Diana Dods: A Gentleman and a Scholar (1991)
and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction (1998), the editor of The
Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1980-88), and the co-editor (with
Charles E. Robinson) of The Mary Shelley Reader (1990) and (with Stuart
Curran) of Mary Shelley in Her Times (2000).
Helen M. Buss (aka Margaret Clarke) is a professor in the English
Department at the University of Calgary. She is the author of novels,
plays, and poetry, as well as books and articles on Canadian literature and
life writing. In 1983, she won a best first novel prize in Manitoba for The
Cutting Season, and in 1983 won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for her study of
Canadian women's autobiography, Mapping Our Selves (1993). Her current
writing and research centre on the memoir form. She has recently published
Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood (1999), and has completed a
book on women's uses of the memoir form, with the working title
Repossessing the World: Reading and Writing Contemporary Women's Memoirs.
Syndy McMillen Conger teaches English at Western Illinois University. She
is the author of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility(1994)
and co-editor of Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein
(1997). Gary Kelly teaches English at the University of Alberta. He is the
author of Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary
Wollstonecraft (1992) and Women, Writing, and Revolution, 1790- 1827
(1993), and the editor of Mary and The Wrongs of Woman, by Mary
Wollstonecraft (1980).
Lawrence R. Kennard is a doctoral student in English at the University of
Calgary. He has published articles on Coleridge. D. L. Macdonald teaches
English at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Poor Polidori: A
Critical Biography of the Author of "The Vampyre" (1991) and Monk Lewis: A
Critical Biography (2000), and the co-editor of Frankenstein, by Mary
Shelley (1994; 2nd ed. 1999), and The Vindications, by Mary Wollstonecraft
(1997).
S. Leigh Matthews is a doctoral student in English at the University of
Calgary, where she specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
Canadian literature and theories of life writing. She is currently
researching and writing her dissertation, "Self(s) Surveyed: Intersections
of Identity in Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs," and has forthcoming a
number of articles on other Canadian lifewriting texts.
Anne McWhir teaches English at the University of Calgary. She is the author
of articles on Burke, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Percy Shelley, and the
editor of The Last Man, by Mary Shelley (1996).
Anne K. Mellor teaches English at the University of California, Los
Angeles. She is the author of Blake's Human Form Divine (1974), English
Romantic Irony (1980), Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters
(1988), Romanticism and Gender (1993), and Mothers of the Nation: Women's
Political Writing in England, 1780- 1830 (2000), editor of Romanticism and
Feminism(1988), and coeditor of The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein
(1993) and British Literature, 1780-1830(1996).
Jeanne Moskal is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Blake, Ethics, and Forgiveness (1994)
and of articles on the travel writings of Ann Radcliffe, Mariana Starke,
Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, and Mary Wollstonecraft. She is editor of
Travel Writing, by Mary Shelley (1996; volume 8 in The Novels and Selected
Works of Mary Shelley), and of Letters from Norway, by Mary Wollstonecraft
(forthcoming), and co-editor of Reading and Teaching Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth- Century British Women Writers (forthcoming).
Jeanne Perreault teaches English at the University of Calgary. She is the
author of Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autography (1995).
Charles E. Robinson teaches English at the University of Delaware. He is
the author of Shelley and Byron: The Snake and Eagle Wreathed in Fight
(1976), editor of Mary Shelley's Tales and Stories (1976), of her
Mythological Dramas: Proserpine and Midas (1992), and of The Frankenstein
Notebooks: A Facsimile of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-1817
(1996), and co-editor (with Betty T. Bennett) of The Mary Shelley Reader
(1990).
Rose Scollard is a Calgary playwright. She is the author of Bête
Blanche/Tango Noir (1988), Uneasy Listening: Three Plays for Radio (1995),
and Shea of the White Hands (1995), and co-author of Aphra (1997).
Eleanor Ty teaches English and women's studies at Wilfrid Laurier
University, in Waterloo, Ontario. She is the author of Unsex'd
Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s (1993) and Empowering
the Feminine: The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie,
1796-1812 (1998), and editor of The Victim of Prejudice (1994) and of
Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1996) by Mary Hays.
Lisa Vargo teaches English at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the
author of articles on Anna Barbauld, Anna Jameson, and Mary Shelley, and is
editor of Lodore, by Mary Shelley (1997).