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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... suggest the richness and complexity of life writing, both as creative/scholarly practice and as the object of scholarly, critical, and theoretical investigation. This diversity of approach is reflected in our contributors' usage of ...
... suggest possible reasons for their reticence about themselves: Ty and Matthews argue that the established autobiographical forms available to them had been developed primarily by men, for the purposes of masculine self-expression, and ...
... suggests that, by taking up contemporary autobiographical modes of a self-referencing persona, Wollstonecraft “lays claim to a greater degree of subjecthood and agency in the moment of writing than in the rest of her experience” as a ...
... emphasis on the importance of the embodied self, Perreault suggests that the site of this resistance is the body of the woman and of the slave. Like Kelly, Perreault analyzes the “modern liberal subject,” but she Introduction 11.
... suggests that “Mary Shelley felt unworthy or unlike her mother with respect to women's rights,” and Kelly, who sees Shelley as essentially complicit in the establishment of the modern liberal subject, Vargo argues that Shelley is ...
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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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