The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley
Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.
- Covers a wide range of topics in a clear and comprehensive way
- The volume is well supported by a detailed chronology, bibliography and select filmography
- Offers treatments of film and popular culture in addition to literary and cultural criticism approaches
Reviews & endorsements
"The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley, edited by Esther Schor, pulls together a lively and original collection of essays from a range of distinguished contributors. Perhaps the most striking thing about this volume is the impression it succeeds in giving of Mary Shelley not as some adjunct to Percy Bysshe (indeed, Susan Wolfson's impressive study of the editorial work she performed on her poet-husband's writings makes it clear the degree to which she shaped the poet's reception in the decades after his death), but as a radical and innovative thinker in her own right." Kate Flint, Studies in English Literature
"...give[s] Shelley her due as a prominent woman of letters for thirty years, not a one-book wonder." Caroline Franklin, Times Literary Supplement
"The Cambirdge Companion to Mary Shelley fulfills the admirable project of providing in one compact volume an introduction to and crticism of most of Shelley's oeuvre....this companion is an excellent introduction to such a discussion." - Staci Stone, Murray State University, South Atlantic Review
Product details
December 2003Hardback
9780521809849
316 pages
235 × 158 × 24 mm
0.628kg
14 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Chronology
- Preface
- Part I. 'The Author of Frankenstein':
- 1. Making a 'monster': an introduction to Frankenstein Anne K. Mellor
- 2. Frankenstein, Matilda, and the legacies of Godwin and Wollstonecraft Pamela Clemit
- 3. Frankenstein, feminism, and literary theory Diane Long Hoeveler
- 4. Frankenstein on Film Esther Schor
- 5. Frankenstein's futurity: from replicants to robotics Jay Clayton
- Part II. Fictions and Myths:
- 6. Valperga Stuart Curran
- 7. The last man Kari E. Lokke
- 8. Historical novelist Deidre Lynch
- 9. Falkner and other fictions Kate Ferguson Ellis
- 10. Stories for the Keepsake Charlotte Sussman
- 11. Proserpine and Midas Judith Pascoe
- Part III. Professional Personae:
- 12. Mary Shelley, editor Susan J. Wolfson
- 13. Letters: the public/private self Betty T. Bennett
- 14. Mary Shelley as biographer Greg Kucich
- 15. Mary Shelley's travel writing Jeanne Moskal
- 16. Mary Shelley as cultural critic Timothy Morton
- Further reading
- Selected filmography.
