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Frankenstein and the Critics: Includes unabridged FRANKENSTEIN 1818 Paperback - 2014

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Author: Scott, Sir Walter, Shelley, Percy Bysshe., Edinburgh Magazine Staff, Gentleman&#39;s Magazine Staff, Panorama Publishing Co Staff
ISBN: 9781500361402

by Percy Bysshe Shelley; The Edinburgh Magazine; The Gentleman's Magazine

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Title Frankenstein and the Critics: Includes unabridged FRANKENSTEIN 1818
Author Percy Bysshe Shelley; The Edinburgh Magazine; The Gentleman's Magazine
Binding Paperback
Pages 210
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Date 2014-06
ISBN 9781500361402 / 1500361402
Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.44 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.12 cm)

About the author

Mary Shelley (ne Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was known mainly for her efforts to publish Percy Shelley's works and for her novel Frankenstein, which remains widely read and has inspired many theatrical and film adaptations. Recent scholarship has yielded a more comprehensive view of Mary Shelley's achievements. Scholars have shown increasing interest in her literary output, particularly in her novels, which include the historical novels Valperga (1823) and Perkin Warbeck (1830), the apocalyptic novel The Last Man (1826), and her final two novels, Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837). Studies of her lesser-known works such as the travel book Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844) and the biographical articles for Dionysius Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia (1829-46) support the growing view that Mary Shelley remained a political radical throughout her life. Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society. This view was a direct challenge to the individualistic Romantic ethos promoted by Percy Shelley and the Enlightenment political theories articulated by her father, William Godwin.