The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

by Esther Schor (Editor)

Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.

Genres: Nonfiction, Victor Frankenstein, Literary Criticism, Gothic

315 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 20, 2003

Reviews

[Megan]

Hoeveler: "Frankenstein, Feminism, & Literary Theory"
Esther Schor: Frankenstein and Film

[Lucinda Dreadnought]

solid.

[Jane]

Interessant und vielseitig.

[Emma]

War flashbacks. Frankenstein and technology essay lacking.