Falkner, A Novel. "By the author of Frankenstein, The Last Man, etc." Complete in one volume. Uncommon

Name: Falkner, A Novel. "By the author of Frankenstein, The Last Man, etc." Complete in one volume. Uncommon
Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1837

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Bound in teal green cloth, blindstamped with clusters of flower petals on the front and rear boards. The spine label is mostly worn off with some black lettering on white remaining. Worn with a slight spine slant. With wear to the corners, and touch of puckering to the cloth at the bottom corner of the front boards near the spine. The front free endpaper has been excised. With some faint pencil marks on the front paste-down; and a handsome pencil drawing of Count D'Orsay on the rear endpaper. Very faint triangular dampstain cone measuring 2" x 2" widening at the bottom center of the text in the early pages, but gradually fading out. With "Temple" (underlined) written in pencil at the top of the title page. A vintage copy Mary Shelley's Falkner which is the only one of her novels in which the heroine's agenda triumphs. The novel's resolution proposes that when female values triumph over violent and destructive masculinity, men will be freed to express the "compassion, sympathy, and generosity" of their better natures. (Wikipedia). Falkner(1837) is the penultimate book published by the authorMary Shelley. Like Shelley's earlier novelLodore(1835), it charts a young woman's education under a tyrannical father figure. As a six-year-old orphan, Elizabeth Raby prevents Rupert Falkner from committing suicide; Falkner then adopts her and brings her up to be a model of virtue. However, she falls in love with Gerald Neville, whose mother Falkner had unintentionally driven to her death years before. When Falkner is finally acquitted of murdering Neville's mother, Elizabeth's female values subdue the destructive impulses of the two men she loves, who are reconciled and unite with Elizabeth in domestic harmony. Falkneris the only one of Shelley's novels in which the heroine's agenda triumphs.[2]In critic Kate Ferguson Ellis's view, the novels resolution proposes that when female values triumph over violent and destructive masculinity, men will be freed to express the "compassion, sympathy, and generosity" of their better natures.[3] Critics have until recently citedLodoreandFalkneras evidence of aconservativeretrenchment by Shelley. In 1984,Mary Pooveyidentified the retreat of Shelleys reformist politics into the "separate sphere" of the domestic.[4]As withLodore, contemporary critics reviewed the novel as a romance, overlooking its political subtext and noting its moral issues as purely familial. Betty Bennett argues, however, thatFalkneris as much concerned with power and political responsibility as Shelley's previous novels.[5]Poovey suggested that Shelley wroteFalknerto resolve her conflicted response to herfather's combination oflibertarianradicalism and stern insistence on social decorum.[6]. Critics viewFalknerneither as notably feminist,[7]nor as one of Mary Shelley's strongest novels, though she herself believed it could be her best. The novel has been criticised for its two-dimensional characterisation.[8]In Bennett's view, "Lodore and Falkner represent fusions of the psychological social novel with the educational novel, resulting not in romances but instead in narratives of destabilization: the heroic protagonists are educated women who strive to create a world of justice and universal love".[9](Wikipedia) First American Edition, 1st printing with the title page date of 1837. Perhaps a gift binding with the subtle floral pattern on the boards.

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Title: Falkner, A Novel. "By the author of Frankenstein, The Last Man, etc." Complete in one volume. Uncommon
Author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Publication year: 1837
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition (1837).
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