The Last Man and The Journal of Sorrow

Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a novel set in the aftermath of climate disaster and a war between Greece and Turkey in the late twenty-first century. Shelley's 'Journal of Sorrow' was written after the death of her husband and provides the personal background to the novel.

About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Eileen Hunt is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame whose scholarly interests cover modern political thought, feminism, the family, rights, ethics of technology, and philosophy and literature. She has authored or edited ten books and her essays, political analyses, reviews, and opinion pieces have appeared in Aeon Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Public Seminar, and The Times Literary Supplement. Her scholarship on Wollstonecraft and Shelley has been supported by the NEH, the ACLS, the Sloan Foundation, and the Bodleian Libraries.

Product details

• Authors: Editor, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 12.05.2026
• EAN: 9780198892793
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889279-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Weight: 1 g
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Epistolary fiction / fictional diaries