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Author: Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-30
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780521789523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collected volume which addresses all aspects of Wollstonecraft's momentous and tragically brief career.
Author: Esther Schor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-20
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1139826735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKnown from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-12
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1107016681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging and accessible account of the pioneering professional women writers who flourished during the Romantic period.
Author: Barbara Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-03-13
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521004176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she has become an icon of modern feminism: a stature that has paradoxically obscured her real historic significance. In the most in-depth study to date of Wollstonecraft s thought, Barbara Taylor develops an alternative reading of her as a writer steeped in the utopianism of Britain s radical Enlightenment. Wollstonecraft s feminist aspirations, Taylor shows, were part of a revolutionary programme for universal equality and moral perfection that reached its zenith during the political upheavals of the 1790s but had its roots in the radical-Protestant Enlightenment. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft s works, and locating them in a vividly detailed account of her intellectual world and troubled personal history, Taylor provides a compelling portrait of this fascinating and profoundly influential thinker.
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Published: 2002
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ISBN-13: 9785217895243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pamela Clemit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-10
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0521516072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.
Author: Derek Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-11-25
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1139826948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
Author: Andrew Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107086191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSixteen original essays by leading scholars on Mary Shelley's novel provide an introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts.
Author: Nancy E. Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-31
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ISBN-13: 1108266223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought, historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.
Author: Drummond Bone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-11-18
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521786768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKByron s life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron s life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron s writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron s interest in the East, his relationship to the publishing world, his attitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. This Companion provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars, including a chronology and a guide to further reading.
