The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

ISBN-13: 9781032090894 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str.

Anna Mercer

Opis

How did Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, two of the most iconic and celebrated authors of the Romantic Period, contribute to each other’s achievements? This book is the first to dedicate a full-length study to exploring the nature of the Shelleys’ literary relationship in depth.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Author’s Note

List of Images

The Shelleys: A Brief Chronology

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1, 1814-18: London to Europe – collaborative beginnings

Chapter 2, 1818-22: Literary exchanges in Italy

Chapter 3, 1818-22: The Italian period and shared composition

Chapter 4, 1822 and beyond: Approaching posthumous editing as collaboration

Chapter 5, 1822 and beyond: Intertextual connections and Mary Shelley’s later novels

Afterword: ‘We have now lived five years together’

Abbreviations

Works Cited

O autorze

Dr. Anna Mercer　has a PhD in English Literature from the University of York. She has also studied at Jesus College, University of Cambridge and the University of Liverpool. She has published essays in The Keats-Shelley Review　and　The Coleridge　Bulletin,　and has also written and edited several blogs on Romanticism (including for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the Keats-Shelley Association of America). She won the runner-up Keats-Shelley Essay Prize in 2015. Anna currently teaches English Literature at Cardiff University and works at Keats House Museum. This is her first monograph.