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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... father's work who had been expelled from Oxford for atheism and who had married without his titled family's approval. On 26 June 1814, on a visit to her mother's grave in St Pancras churchyard, she told him that she loved him. They ...
... father-in-law, Sir Timothy Shelley, from writing a life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (and thus prevented from doing for her husband some version of what Godwin had done for Wollstonecraft), she turned other forms of writing and editing into ...
... father's collapsing breath, and the little baby in the next room crying. . . . In Scollard's play, the scene of Wollstonecraft's death is not only a window to the irrecoverable past—the last act of a tragedy—but the beginning of another ...
... father-in-law prevented her from writing a memoir of her husband by threatening to cut off the allowance on which she and her son depended; Moskal argues that certain aspects of Shelley's past were too painful for her to write about ...
... father as often as to her mother. This is most obvious in her unfinished biography of her father, which, as Judith Barbour shows, was inhibited not only by the discouraging example of Godwin's Memoirs of Wollstonecraft but also by ...
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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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