Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing LivesHelen M. Buss, D. L. Macdonald, Anne McWhir Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 1 de gen. 2006 - 340 pàgines 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. |
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... argues that Shelley's post-revolutionary moment was especially hostile to women's autobiography; Buss examines Godwin's conflicted attempt to write his wife's life; Barbour analyzes the psychic tensions that eventually led Shelley to ...
... argues, creates a persona who is not only a subject (rather than an object) but also an active (rather than a passive) subject. Macdonald distinguishes between those self-references that refer to the self in the past (the “person”) and ...
... argues that the “classic” memoir is not an impartial, objective genre, as biography claims to be, but that it depends on the partiality and the participatory role of its narrator for its strength as a form: its ability to portray ...
... argues that Shelley is anxious not to “degenerate” from her mother's revolutionary example. Vargo also proposes that Lodore enacts in its plot the “reunion of mother and daughter” that Shelley's careful reading of her mother's works ...
... argues, like Vargo, that the daughter has not retreated from the radical politics of the mother. In proposing her “analogy between dream-work and life writing,” Moskal theorizes that autobiography, traditionally seen as revealing the ...
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Self Possessions | 99 |
Memoirs Discourse and William Godwins Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | 113 |
Anatomy and Animation in Frankenstein and The Last Man | 159 |
Lodore as an Imagined Conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft | 177 |
Art Criticism as Life Writing in Mary Shelleys Rambles in Germany and Italy | 189 |
Biographical Imaginings and Mary Shelleys Extant and Missing Correspondence | 217 |
Reflections on Writing Mary Shelleys Life | 233 |
Caves of Fancy | 243 |
Works Cited | 295 |
Contributors | 313 |
An Intersection of Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and Mary Wollstonecrafts A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | 127 |
WritingOther Women in Godwins Life | 139 |
Index | 317 |
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