Mary Shelley: A Literary Life (Literary Lives) - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312228325 ISBN 13: 9780312228323

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Synopsis

This comprehensive overview of Mary Shelley's life as an author frequently reads like an anthology of extracts from some of the most lurid and sensationalist novels of the early 19th century. After the stormy years of her relationship with Percy Shelley ended in his tragic death, Mary went on to raise her one surviving son, never sure of the loyalty of friends and threatened and intimidated by her dead husband's father. Shelley is known best as the author of Frankenstein, and an important function of this book is to reassess her achievement as the author of seven novels, innumerable short stories, biography, travel writing, and as the first editor of Percy Shelley's poetry and prose.

About this title

About the Author:

John Williams is Reader in Literary Studies at the University of Greenwich.

Review:

'...an enjoyable, thought-provoking book that is a valuable contribution to Shelley studies...Mary Shelley in Her Times contains some of the strongest essays of recent times on Shelley's work.' - Professor Vincent Newey, The Byron Journal 'An intelligent, sympathetic, informative, and entertaining account of its subject.' - Gothic Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312228325
• ISBN 13: 9780312228323
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218