This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last Man and Mathilda and her tales, reviews, travel writing and the (until recently neglected) Literary Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French writers. There are detailed entries on her personal and/or literary relationship with her parents Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, Coleridge and Claire Clairmont; on her religion, feminism, politics, relation to Romanticism, portraits and representation in drama, film and television; and on the influence of her work on such writers as Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontës, Dickens and H.G. Wells.
Author(s): Martin Garrett
Series: Palgrave Literary Dictionaries
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 343
Tags: British And Irish Literature
Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
A (Martin Garrett)....Pages 1-6
B (Martin Garrett)....Pages 7-22
C (Martin Garrett)....Pages 23-38
D (Martin Garrett)....Pages 39-45
E (Martin Garrett)....Pages 47-53
F (Martin Garrett)....Pages 55-92
G (Martin Garrett)....Pages 93-106
H (Martin Garrett)....Pages 107-118
I (Martin Garrett)....Pages 119-126
J (Martin Garrett)....Pages 127-129
K (Martin Garrett)....Pages 131-133
L (Martin Garrett)....Pages 135-161
M (Martin Garrett)....Pages 163-192
N (Martin Garrett)....Pages 193-197
O (Martin Garrett)....Pages 199-202
P (Martin Garrett)....Pages 203-227
Q (Martin Garrett)....Pages 229-229
R (Martin Garrett)....Pages 231-249
S (Martin Garrett)....Pages 251-284
T (Martin Garrett)....Pages 285-294
V (Martin Garrett)....Pages 295-308
W (Martin Garrett)....Pages 309-316
Back Matter ....Pages 317-336
