Download or read book Reflections on the Dysfunctional Family in Mary Shelley s Life and Frankenstein written by Deanna L. Schenk and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mary Shelley written by Anne K. Mellor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities.
Download or read book Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child written by Eileen Hunt Botting and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child, Eileen Hunt Botting contends that Frankenstein is a profound work of speculative fiction designed to engage a radical moral and political question: do children have rights?
Download or read book Mary s Monster written by Lita Judge and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Both timely and terrifying.” —Gregory Macguire, New York Times–bestselling author of Wicked Pairing free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations, Mary’s Monster is a unique and stunning biography of Mary Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway who became one of the greatest authors of all time. Legend is correct that Mary Shelley began penning Frankenstein in answer to a dare to write a ghost story. What most people don't know, however, is that the seeds of her novel had been planted long before that night. By age nineteen, she had been disowned by her family, was living in scandal with a married man, and had lost her baby daughter just days after her birth. Mary poured her grief, pain, and passion into the powerful book still revered two hundred years later, and in Mary's Monster, author/illustrator Lita Judge has poured her own passion into a gorgeous book that pays tribute to the life of this incredible author. A 2019 NCSS-CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book A 2019 Amelia Bloomer Project Book This title has Common Core connections.
Download or read book Through the Tempests Dark and Wild written by Sharon Darrow and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates how Mary Shelley spent time as a teenager living with family friends in Scotland, and how this period of her life may have influenced her writing of "Frankenstein."
Download or read book Iconoclastic Departures written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Iconoclastic Departures contributes to the ongoing reevaluation of Mary Shelley as a professional author in her own right with a lifelong commitment to the development of her craft. Many of its essays acknowledge the importance of her family to her work - the steady theme of much earlier scholarship - but for them the family has become an imperative socio-psychological context within which to better understand her innovations in the many literary forms she worked with during her career: journals, letters, travelogues, biographies, poems, dramas, tales, and novels." "The book's essays also convey the conviction that even if Mary Shelley, after Percy Shelley's death, gradually retired from public life as his relatives wished, she retained a resiliently resistant attitude toward many of the established orders of her day, easily recovered by a careful look beyond her "feelings" to the productions of her literary "imagination."" "The Mary Shelley who inhabits this three-part collection of portraits is a radical, even if a quiet radical. Part 1 focuses on various moments in her construction of her authorial identity; parts 2 and 3 anatomize the nature of her resistance and her innovation. She is presented as a writer who reappropriates authority for herself, who redesigns genres, who redefines gender, who rewrites history and biography, who revises her readers' aesthetic expectations, and who protests cultural imperialism at home and abroad. It seems significant to the contributors to this volume that this new, radical Mary Shelley was not invented by a pointed call for papers but emerged spontaneously from an open invitation to scholars working in various corners of the English-speaking world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters With Reflections on Female Conduct in the More Important Duties of Life written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on Mary Shelley and her works and includes a chronology of events in the author's life.
Download or read book Frankenstein Annotated written by Mary Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this book has been annotated to add facts and extra information to the book which makes it all in all a new experience detailed biography of the author chronology of events and literary criticisms citation from mary shelly's life historical context, Frankenstein, illness and death FrankensteinMay Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816 when she was 18 years old. Yep, that's right, Mary Shelley was only 18 when she wrote one of the world's most terrifying and enduring stories. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was published anonymously two years later. Finally, in 1823, an edition with Mary Shelley's name on it was published. We'll call Mary by her first name in this lesson to differentiate her from her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, another well-known literary figure from the same period.Frankenstein was also heavily influenced by the philosophies of the Enlightenment, a cultural movement that preceded Romanticism in Europe and lasted from about 1650 to 1800. Enlightenment thinkers, such Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Sir Isaac Newton, emphasized reason, analysis, and individualism. Rather than following religious teachings, Enlightenment thinkers turned to scientific study and practiced skepticism.
Download or read book England s First Family of Writers written by Julie A. Carlson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collective consideration of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Shelley with “extended and sophisticated readings of many of [their] neglected works” (Choice). Life and literature were inseparable for Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. In England’s First Family of Writers, Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how and why the works of these individuals can best be understood within the context of the family unit in which they were created. The first to consider their writing collectively, Carlson finds in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley dynasty a family of writers whose works are in intimate dialogue with each other. For them, literature made love and produced children, as well as mourned, memorialized, and reanimated the dead. Construing the ways in which this family’s works minimize the differences between books and persons, writing and living, Carlson offers a nonsentimental account of the extent to which books can live and inform life and death. Carlson also examines the unorthodox clan’s status as England’s first family of writers. She explores how, over time, their reception has evinced ongoing public resistance to those who critique family values.
Download or read book Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley written by Helen M. Buss and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mary Shelley written by Anne Kostelanetz Mellor and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Shelley S Frankenstein, True To Early Nineteenth-Century Romanticism, Provides A Chilling Account Of The Con-Sequences Of Tampering With Nature And Of Transgressing Human Limits To Knowledge. Like Prometheus, The Greek Mythological Figure Who By Creating Man Consigned Both Himself And His Creation To Eternal Suffering, The Scientist Victor Frankenstein And The Unnamed Monster He Creates Are Doomed To Untold Misery And Lonely Deaths. A Brilliant Reflection Of Life In A Turbulent Period Of European History, Frankenstein Synthesizes Fundamental Philosophical, Ideological And Spiritual Concerns And Is A Subject Of Constant Critique And Review In The Light Of New Interests.
Download or read book Frankenstein Annotated Book for Children written by Mary Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early 19th century turned into now not a terrific time to be a female creator -- particularly if one was audacious enough to be a female novelist. Contemporary beliefs held that no person could be inclined to study the paintings of a female; the high-quality success of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein served to thoroughly disprove this theory.Frankenstein set up Shelley as a female of letters when this kind of issue became believed to be a contradiction in phrases; handiest the reputation of Madame de Stael handed Shelley's in Europe. De Stael, however, was extra famous for continuing to put up her works in spite of the truth that the Emperor Napoleon had explicitly forbade her to achieve this, in preference to for the quality of the works themselves.Though Frankenstein is now customarily classified as a horror tale (albeit the first and purest of its type), it is exciting to word that Shelley's contemporaries appeared it as an extreme novel of thoughts. It served as an illustration of the various tenets of William Godwin's philosophy, and did more to promote his thoughts than his personal work ever did. The novel does no longer, however, subscribe to all of Godwin's precepts. It stands in explicit opposition to the idea that guy can acquire perfection -- in reality, it argues that any attempt to gain perfection will in the end result in smash.Frankenstein is part of the Gothic movement in literature, ¬ a shape that changed into simplest simply becoming famous in England on the time of its booklet. The Gothic mode become a response in opposition to the humanistic, rationalist literature of The Age of Reason; one would possibly say it become ushered in by the demise of Keats, the English writer with whom Romanticism is perhaps maximum intently associated. Frankenstein is probably seen as a compromise between the Gothic technique and the Romantic one: it addresses severe philosophical subjects in a fantastical manner. Though it confronts recognizable human issues, it could infrequently be stated to take place in a recognizably natural international. Some critics have suggested that this anxiety between Gothic and Romantic literary modes echoes the philosophical anxiety that existed between herself and her husband, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Download or read book The Other Mary Shelley written by Audrey Fisch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Frankenstein is now widely taught in classes on Romanticism, little attention has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works. Indeed the excitement of the last decade at feminist approaches to Frankenstein has ironically obscured the persona of its author. This collection of essays, written by a preeminent group of Romantic scholars, sketches a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley": the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent interplay among issues of family, gender, and society, and whose writings resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics, culture, and feminism. By analyzing a previously neglected body of novels, novellas, reviews, travel writing, essays, letters, biographies, and tales, and by emphasizing Mary Shelley's shrewd assessment of Romanticism, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking evaluation of one of the foremost cultural critics of the nineteenth century.
Download or read book In Search of Mary Shelley written by Fiona Sampson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know the facts of Mary Shelley’s life in some detail—the death of her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, within days of her birth; the upbringing in the house of her father, William Godwin, in a house full of radical thinkers, poets, philosophers, and writers; her elopement, at the age of seventeen, with Percy Shelley; the years of peripatetic travel across Europe that followed. But there has been no literary biography written this century, and previous books have ignored the real person—what she actually thought and felt and why she did what she did—despite the fact that Mary and her group of second-generation Romantics were extremely interested in the psychological aspect of life.In this probing narrative, Fiona Sampson pursues Mary Shelley through her turbulent life, much as Victor Frankenstein tracked his monster across the arctic wastes. Sampson has written a book that finally answers the question of how it was that a nineteen-year-old came to write a novel so dark, mysterious, anguished, and psychologically astute that it continues to resonate two centuries later. No previous biographer has ever truly considered this question, let alone answered it.
Download or read book Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHY THIS EDITION IS SPECIAL? Inside you can find a J.A. Hammerton work about Mary Shelley's life and her process of writing Frankenstein. J.A. Hammerton was "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known" Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein.
