Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters / Edition 1

by Anne K. Mellor

Overview

An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415901475
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/13/1989
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter One: In Search of a Family; Chapter Two: Making a Minster; Chapter Three: My Hideous Progeny; Chapter Four: Promethean Politics; Chapter Five: A Feminist Critique of Science; Chapter Six: Usurping the Female; Chapter Seven: Problem of Perception; Chapter Eight: Love, Guilt and Reparetion; Chapter Nine: Revising Frankenstein; Chapter Ten: Fathers and Daughters, or “A Sexual Education”; Chapter Eleven: Idealizing the Bourgeois Family: Final Reflections

Editorial Reviews

". . . the fullest account of Mary Shelley we have or are likely to have . ." — Nina Auerbach

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