Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0889203644 ISBN 13: 9780889203648

Casa editrice: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Pioneers in life writing, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1818 ), are now widely regarded as two of the leading writers of the Romantic period. They are both responsible for opening up new possibilities for women in genres traditionally dominated by men.

This volume brings together essays on Wollstonecraft’s and Shelley’s life writing by some of the most prominent scholars in Canada, Australia, and the United States. It also includes a full-length play by award-winning Canadian playwright Rose Scollard. Together, the essays and the play explore the connections between mother and daughter, between writing and life, and between criticism and creation. They offer a new understanding of two important writers, of a literary period, and of emergent modes of life writing.

Essayists include Judith Barbour, Betty T. Bennett, Anne K. Mellor, Charles E. Robinson, Eleanor Ty, and Lisa Vargo. Among the works discussed are Wollstonecraft’s Vindication, Letters from Norway, and Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman; William Godwin’s Memoirs of Wollstonecraft; and Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Last Man, Ladore, and Rambles in Germany and Italy.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0889203644
• ISBN 13: 9780889203648
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 342
• Redattore: Buss Helen M., Macdonald D. L., McWhir Anne