Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction

by Betty T. Bennett

Book Overview

Recognition of Mary Shelley's systemic dual focus on public and domestic power as the means to interrogate traditional norms and propose alternatives materially alters parochial perceptions of her objectives and her achievements. Her novels, outside of Frankenstein, and recently, The Last Man, have been dismissed as simple, mutual dissociated romances or experiments in genre solely to intersect with a market niche; they are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080185976X
• ISBN13: 9780801859762
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.0"