Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley : writing lives
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. To
eBook, English, 2001
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ont., Canada, 2001
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The politics of autobiography in Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley / Gary Kelly
The personal pronoun as political: stylistics of self-reference in the vindications / D.L. Macdonald
The power of the unnamed you in Mary Wollstonecrafts' Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark / Syndy McMillen Conger
Reveries of reality: Mary Wollstonecraft's poetics of sensibility / Lawrence R. Kennard
"The history of my own heart": inscribing self, inscribing desire in Wollstonecraft's Letters from Norway / Eleanor Ty
(Un)confinements: the madness of motherhood in Mary Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman / S. Leigh Matthews
Mary Wollstonecraft and Harriet Jacobs: self possessions / Jeanne Perreault
Memoirs discourse and William Godwin's Memoirs of the author of a vindication of the rights of woman / Helen M. Buss
A mother's daughter: an intersection of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Mary Wollstonecraft's A vindication of the rights of woman / Charles E. Robinson
Mary Shelley: writing/other women in Godwin's Life / Judith Barbour
"Unconceiving marble": anatomy and animation in Frankenstein and The last man / Anne McWhir
Further thoughts on the education of daughters: Lodore as an imagined conversation with Mary Wollstonecraft / Lisa Vargo
Speaking the unspeakable: art criticism as life writing in Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy / Jeanne Moskal
Biographical imaginings and Mary Shelley's (extant and missing) correspondence
Reflections on writing Mary Shelley's life / Anne K. Mellor
Caves of fancy / Rose Scollard
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