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Title Mary Shelley / editor, Virginia Brackett
Published Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 280 pages)
Series Critical insights
Critical insights.
Contents About This Volume / Virginia Brackett -- On Mary Shelley / Virginia Brackett -- Biography of Mary Shelley / Michael Flaherty -- Creations Born of Chaos: The Historical and Cultural Context of Mary Shelley's Novels / Calinda C. Shely -- "Odious Handywork": Reception as Reconciliation and the Critical Legacy of Mary Shelley / Danielle Barkley -- "I ate no apple": An Analysis of Gender, Power, and Blame in Mary Shelley's Early Fiction / Stacey L. Kikendall -- Neglect and Childhood Trauma in Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights: Writing the Domestic (Abuse) Novel / Katherine Montwieler -- "We shall be monsters, cut off from all the world": Mary Shelley and Disability Studies / Dwight Codr -- Not "merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors": Mary Shelley Critiques Women's Education in Anxiety / Robin Runia -- Dr. Frankenstein and the Review Board: Research Ethics in Frankenstein / Ashley Lynn Carlson -- "But Again the Frost Came": The Arctic Canvas in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Nicole Papas -- Environment, Ecology, and Apocalypse in Mary Shelley's The Last Man / Seth T. Reno -- Monstrous Crimes and Offender Accountability: Shelley's Representation of Criminal Justice from Frankenstein to Falkner / Colleen Fenno -- "The Invisible Girl": Gender and Form in Mary Shelley's Short Stories / Nicole Lobdell -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley--The Immortal Mortal: A Psychoanalytic Analysis of The Last Man, "On Ghosts," and "The Mortal Immortal" / Katherine Marie Alexander -- Mary Shelley and Romantic Medievalism / Christine E. Kozikowski -- "It's Alive": Popular Culture Commodification of Frankenstein's Monster / Natalie Neill -- Chronology of Mary Shelley's Life -- Works by Mary Shelley -- Bibliography
Summary This book provides readers with in-depth, critical discussions of the life and works of Mary Shelley. A chronology of Shelley's life, a complete list of Shelley's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 fast
Subject English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Monsters in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction
Monsters in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Brackett, Virginia, editor.
ISBN 9781682171172
1682171175