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The Last Man - A Norton Critical Edition

English · Paperback / Softback

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This Norton Critical Edition includes:


  • The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the only one approved by Mary Shelley.

  • Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington.

  • A rich selection of contextual documents-twenty-six in all-pertaining to The Last Man's background and sources, reception and impact, other related works by Shelley, and other "Last Man" texts.

  • Fourteen carefully chosen critical assessments on the novel's major themes.

  • A chronology of Mary Shelley's life and work and a selected bibliography




About the author

Chris Washington is an assistant professor of English at Francis Marion University. He specializes in British Romantic literature, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry and poetics, and literary theory. His articles have appeared in European Review, Essays in Romanticism, Literature Compass, and Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons. With Anne McCarthy he is the coeditor of Romanticism and Speculative Realism, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press.

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