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Mary Shelley’s Early Novels

‘This Child of Imagination and Misery’

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  • © 1993

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  1. Jane Blumberg
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Jane Blumberg
    Pages 1-9

  3. Early Influences: “A History of the Jews”

    • Jane Blumberg
    Pages 10-29

  4. Frankenstein and the “Good Cause”

    • Jane Blumberg
    Pages 30-56

  5. “Connected in a Thousand Ways”: Mary Shelley and Lord Byron

    • Jane Blumberg
    Pages 57-75

  6. “That Masterpiece of His Malice”: Valperga

    • Jane Blumberg
    Pages 76-113

  7. “The earth is not, nor ever can be heaven”: The Last Man

    • Jane Blumberg
    Pages 114-155

  8. Creating a Literary Reputation

    • Jane Blumberg
    Pages 156-185

  9. Conclusion

    • Jane Blumberg
    Pages 186-189

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 190-257
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Mary Shelley's Early Novels seeks to redress the commonly held view that Mary Shelley was simply another mouthpiece for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her most challenging and ambitious novels; Frankenstein, Valperga, and The Last Man, are examined in the light of her intellectual relationship with Percy Shelley. We see the way in which these novels reflect her gradual rejection of his radical tenets in an assertion of her own intellectual and ideological independence.

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