1st Edition

Mary Shelley Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters

By Anne K. Mellor Copyright 1988
    308 Pages
    by Routledge

    308 Pages
    by Routledge

    An innovative, beautifully written analysis of Mary Shelley's life and works which draws on unpublished archival material as well as Frankenstein and examines her relationship with her husband and other key personalities.

    Chapter One: In Search of a Family; Chapter Two: Making a Minster; Chapter Three: My Hideous Progeny; Chapter Four: Promethean Politics; Chapter Five: A Feminist Critique of Science; Chapter Six: Usurping the Female; Chapter Seven: Problem of Perception; Chapter Eight: Love, Guilt and Reparetion; Chapter Nine: Revising Frankenstein; Chapter Ten: Fathers and Daughters, or “A Sexual Education”; Chapter Eleven: Idealizing the Bourgeois Family: Final Reflections

    Biography

    Anne K. Mellor

    ". . . the fullest account of Mary Shelley we have or are likely to have . ." -- Nina Auerbach