Mary Shelley's Early Novels: 'this Child of Imagination and Misery'University of Iowa Press, 1993 - 257 pages This long-overdue reappraisal of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's work convincingly challenges the commonly held view that she was merely a passive mouthpiece for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, for her father, William Godwin, and for the radical milieu that surrounded her. Jane Blumberg reexamines Shelley's most challenging and ambitious novels - the best-known, Frankenstein; the historical novel Valperga; and The Last Man, a futuristic novel detailing the destruction of the world's population by plague - in light of her premise that the actual driving force in Shelley's writings was her fundamental intellectual conflict with the men in her life. Blumberg departs from traditional scholarship which has focused on the personal influences in Shelley's fiction - her father's emotional coldness, difficult childbirth and postpartum depressions, the difficulties of being a woman writer, for example - to show how these novels reflect both Shelley's assertion of her intellectual and ideological independence and her gradual rejection of Percy Shelley's radical tenets. Blumberg also gives due attention to Shelley's competent work as editor and in-house critic of Byron and Percy Shelley and provides a revisionist account of her role as her husband's literary executor, giving her credit for her meticulous care in developing printed texts from the poems she edited directly from manuscripts. |
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... poet's reputation before his memory was lost to the public . In attacking her , Shelley's contemporary and present - day critics misunderstood her overriding editorial concern , that of presenting PBS to the world in the most popular ...
... poet's reputation before his memory was lost to the public . In attacking her , Shelley's contemporary and present - day critics misunderstood her overriding editorial concern , that of presenting PBS to the world in the most popular ...
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... poet's overwhelming desire ( greater even than that for philosophy or poetry , she suggests ) to do good for others in a non - partisan way . She offers an excuse for his radical , once offensive actions : He chose therefore for his ...
... poet's overwhelming desire ( greater even than that for philosophy or poetry , she suggests ) to do good for others in a non - partisan way . She offers an excuse for his radical , once offensive actions : He chose therefore for his ...
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... poets " whose imagery is facile , overworn and sentimental . However , Shelley again makes it clear that she did not share the poet's political convictions without qualification , in a footnote which continues the comparison of ...
... poets " whose imagery is facile , overworn and sentimental . However , Shelley again makes it clear that she did not share the poet's political convictions without qualification , in a footnote which continues the comparison of ...
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A History of the Jews | 10 |
Frankenstein and the Good Cause | 30 |
4 | 57 |
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