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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... Desire in Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway ........................................... 69 S. Leigh Matthews, (Un)Confinements: The Madness of Motherhood in Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman .............................
... desire in the masculine life-writing tradition she inherited. Thus, she can give public expression to her private feelings of desire only obliquely: through fantasies of escape, imagery of ascension, and her responses to the landscapes ...
... desire” (113), it seems interesting to ask how often she refers to herself as an object (me), and how often as a subject (I). Both her person and her persona display a marked preference for subjecthood over objecthood, but the persona's ...
... desire to understand eighteenth-century life writers as thoroughly as possible inspired me to think again about ways of presenting Wollstonecraft's A Short Residence. Out of one evening's session came a general concurrence among us not ...
... desire, traditionally troped by dream. Hence this and other reveries support Eleanor Ty's arguments (in this volume) concerning desire in the Scandinavian Letters. 8 In Marlene Kadar's definition, “life writing comprises texts that are ...
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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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