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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... Biographical Imaginings and Mary Shelley's (Extant and Missing) Correspondence ..........................................217 Anne K. Mellor, Reflections on Writing Mary Shelley's Life ...................................
... (History of a Six Weeks' Tour; Rambles in Germany and Italy), and biographical sketches (for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia in 1835, 1838, and 1839). She lived to see her son succeed to the Shelley estate and title, and died in 1851 of a ...
... biographical misunderstanding to the conflicting roles forced on Godwin by the demands of the memoir format, and to his ambivalence about Wollstonecraft's achievement and her death. The memoir, like the reverie, is a cross-generic form ...
... biographical, illustrates that life writing accomplishes its goals by crossing generic boundaries. The critical reader of life writing must not feel limited by the designations that contain women's texts inside such narrow interpretive ...
... biography is not necessarily the objective opposite of subjective autobiography. Since biographical writing is inflected by the subject positions of biographers, it may be that, as Mellor wryly observes, “Biographies are autobiographies ...
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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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