Mary Shelley

Informationen zum Autor GRAHAM ALLEN is Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork, Ireland. He teaches a wide range of courses on Romantic Literature and his previous publications include Intertextuality (Routledge Critical Idiom) and Roland Barthes (Routledge Critical Thinkers). Klappentext Graham Allen provides both an introduction to and review of the critical responses to Mary Shelley's major fictions, from the Romantic period to the present day, while also pushing debates forward. The book moves beyond Frankenstein, presenting new readings of other texts such as Matilda, Valperga, The Last Man and Lodore. Zusammenfassung Graham Allen provides both an introduction to and review of the critical responses to Mary Shelley's major fictions, from the Romantic period to the present day, while also pushing debates forward. The book moves beyond Frankenstein , presenting new readings of other texts such as Matilda , Valperga , The Last Man and Lodore . Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Texts and Abbreviations Introduction Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus Matilda Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca The Last Man The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck Lodore Falkner: A Novel Afterword Notes Bibliography Index.

Product details

• Authors: Graham Allen
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2008
• EAN: 9780230019089
• ISBN: 978-0-230-01908-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Critical Issues (Palgrave Hard; Critical Issues; Critical Issues (Palgrave Hard; Critical Issues
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Literature, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, British literature, British and Irish Literature