A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia

A Mary Shelley Encyclopedia
Publisher: Greenwood | ISBN: 031330159X | edition 2003 | PDF | 562 pages | 16,2 mb

Mary Shelley is famous as, first, the author of Frankenstein and, second, as the wife of a famous poet and daughter of a famous novelist and philosopher. Due in no small part to Frankenstein's place on high-school and college reading lists, her other works have been reprinted in recent years. This has resulted in a reassessment and an emergence of Shelley from the shadows of her great work and her family. Exploring these other works leaves one with a sense of an incredible life story and intellect that Frankenstein barely revealed.
This encyclopedia provides readers of Shelley's works with a context--it offers information on her family, friends, residences, and more, as well as entries on her works, characters, influences, and themes. It boasts in the introduction of containing "textual footnotes to nearly all aspects of Shelley and her works." For example, the entry Prometheus mentions the Greek mythological figure but also the uses the myth was put to by Percy Bysshe Shelley (in, for example, Prometheus Unbound, 1820) and the reinvention of the myth by Mary in her most famous novel


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