Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives - Softcover

Helen M. Buss (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889203644 ISBN 13: 9780889203648

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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 Wollstonecrafts and Shelleys 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. Essayists include Judith Barbour, Betty T Bennett, Anne K Mellor, Charles E Robinson, Eleanor Ty, and Lisa Vargo. Among the works discussed are: Wollstonecrafts Vindication, Letters from Norway, and Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman; William Godwins Memoirs of Wollstonecraft; and Shelleys Frankenstein, The Last Man, Ladore, and Rambles in Germany and Italy.

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Review

``Most of the scholars represented have written extensively on the period in which Wollstonecraft and Shelley were writing, and many are established leaders in the field.... The book is refreshingly multivalent.... The contributors offer a number of impressive theoretical points with significance beyond the subjects at hand.''--Audrey Bilger "Biography, 25.2, Spring 2002 "

``This collection of essays on the lives and writings of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley is an achievement for which the editors, the press, and the Calgary Institute for the Humanities...should be congratulated.... The present volume offers much of value not only to Shelley and Wollstonecraft specialists but also to two much larger constituencies: those engaged with feminist thought and praxis, and students of life writing in all its forms.... The collection ends with Caves of Fancy a sharp, sexy dramatization by Rose Scollard of the lives of Mary Shelley, Fanny Imlay, and Claire Clairmont.... It is a lively conclusion to a volume that significantly advances the study of life writing, of these two women's lives, and of their writings.''--Anthony John Harding "English Studies in Canada, 291 (3-4), 2004 "

Synopsis

Pioneers in life writing, Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "A Vindication of the Rights of a 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. 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".

About this edition

• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0889203644
• ISBN 13: 9780889203648
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340