| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover page; Title page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; 1 In Search of a Family; 2 Making a Monster; 3 My Hideous Progeny; 4 Promethean Politics; 5 A Feminist Critique of Science; 6 Usurping the Female; 7 Problems of Perception; 8 Love, Guilt and Reparation: The Last Man; 9 Revising Frankenstein; 10 Fathers and Daughters, or A Sexual Education -- 11 Idealizing the Bourgeois Family: Final Reflections; Appendix : Percy Shelley's Revisions of the Manuscript of Frankenstein; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities |
| Notes |
"A Meridian book." |
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Revised edition of: Child of light. 1951 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-237) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
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| SUBJECT |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 fast |
| Subject |
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authors, English
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Women and literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Spark, Muriel.
Child of light.
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| ISBN |
9781847777676 |
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1847777678 |
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