Valperga

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1609778804
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valperga written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of the early fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani, a real historical figure who became the lord of Lucca and conquered Florence. In the novel, his armies threaten the fictional fortress of Valperga, governed by Countess Euthanasia, the woman he loves. He forces her to choose between her feelings for him and political liberty.

Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026898346
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Valperga written by Mary Shelley and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valperga is a historical novel which relates the adventures of the early fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani, a real historical figure who became the lord of Lucca and conquered Florence. His armies threaten the fortress of Valperga, governed by Countess Euthanasia, the woman he loves. He forces her to choose between her feelings for him and political liberty.

Author : Esther Schor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826735
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley written by Esther Schor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Audrey Fisch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195360233
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Mary Shelley written by Audrey Fisch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Frankenstein is now widely taught in classes on Romanticism, little attention has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works. Indeed the excitement of the last decade at feminist approaches to Frankenstein has ironically obscured the persona of its author. This collection of essays, written by a preeminent group of Romantic scholars, sketches a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley": the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent interplay among issues of family, gender, and society, and whose writings resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics, culture, and feminism. By analyzing a previously neglected body of novels, novellas, reviews, travel writing, essays, letters, biographies, and tales, and by emphasizing Mary Shelley's shrewd assessment of Romanticism, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking evaluation of one of the foremost cultural critics of the nineteenth century.

Author : Mary Shelley
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2672 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Novels of Mary Shelley written by Mary Shelley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 2672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited Mary Shelley collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Frankenstein (Original Edition, 1818) Frankenstein (Revised Edition, 1831) The Last Man Valperga The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Lodore Falkner The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley by Florence Ashton Marshall

Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226752280
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maurice, Or The Fisher's Cot written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1997, a slight book sewn together with string was discovered in a palazzo in Italy. This was Maurice, the only children's story ever penned by Mary Shelley. Written two years after Frankenstein, Maurice is often read as a gloss of Shelley's personal family tragedies, bearing the same melancholy that distinguishes all of her works. As Claire Tomalin shows in her compelling introduction, it contributes greatly to the literary and biographical scholarship on this fascinating woman who was a significant writer in her own right as well as the wife of one of the world's greatest romantic poets.

Author : Lisa Kasmer
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611474965
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Novel Histories written by Lisa Kasmer and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women’s writing. At a time when women’s participation in the republic of letters was both celebrated and reviled, these authors took cues from developments that revolutionized British history writing to push the limits of narrated history to respond to contemporary national politics. Through an examination of the conventions of historical and literary genres; historiography during the period; and the gendering of civic and literary roles, this study shows not only a social, political, and literary lineage among women’s history writing and fiction but also among women’s writing and the writing of history.

Author : Charlene Bunnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136713573
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'All the World's a Stage' written by Charlene Bunnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels.

Author : Michael E. Schiefelbein
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865547209
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lure of Babylon written by Michael E. Schiefelbein and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the effect of Catholicism on the imagination and the fiction of Protestant novelists in England during the decades surrounding Catholic Emancipation (1829) and the reestablishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England (1850). This book examines anti-Catholicism in popular and respected novelists such as Scott and Dickens, showing the secret attraction to Catholicism of staunch anti-Catholic Protestants.

Author : Sharon Lynne Joffe
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820495064
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kinship Coterie and the Literary Endeavors of the Women in the Shelley Circle written by Sharon Lynne Joffe and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original Scholarly Monograph