Mary Shelley was a complex and committed social thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the impact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic upon the lives of women. In 'Lodore' she tells the story of a woman's journey to reconciliation with her mother.
Mary Shelley was a complex and committed social thinker whose novels reveal her deep concern with the impact of the emerging Victorian social dynamic ...
Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley's treatment of the theme goes beyond the conventional; it is extraordinarily interesting and deeply moving.
If The Last Man is in some sense a “conventional” text of the period, it is also intensely personal in its origin; Shelley refers in her journal to the last man as...
Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. ...
Landon was one of the most celebrated literary figures of 19th century British literature, by the age of 22 she had achieved considerable renown. Her poetry was largely forgotten however, and this is the first 20th century edition of her poems.
Landon was one of the most celebrated literary figures of 19th century British literature, by the age of 22 she had achieved considerable renown. Her ...
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nineteenth-century genre of slave narrative autobiographies. Written and published by Equiano, a former slave, it became a prototype for those that followed.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself was the first work that influenced the nin...
Old English literary history is sketchy, even more so with poetry where there is little internal evidence of place, date, occasion, or author. And there is a paucity of surviving verse about 31,000 extant lines mostly written near the year 1000 in the late West-Saxon dialect, works such as Beowulf,
Old English literary history is sketchy, even more so with poetry where there is little internal evidence of place, date, occasion, or author. And the...
Mary Hay''s first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the man she loves. It concerns itself with issues of female dependence, sexuality, and woman''s role in society.'
Mary Hay''s first novel, Memoirs of Emma Courtney, transgresses literary and social conventions with its outspoken heroine who pursues the man she lov...
Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote themselves to a search for evidence in them of supposed deficiencies of 'the female pen,' and to pay as much attention to the playwright's marriages and amorous liasons than to the plays themselves.
Though critics and literary historians have always had to admit that Susanna Centlivre's comedies were extremely popular, they have tended to devote t...
In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist , Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English...
In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist , Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which retur...
This edition is arranged chronologically, opening with Wollstonecraft's other vindication. It also includes a wide range of other relevant documents in appendices as well as a comprehensive introduction, chronology and full index.
This edition is arranged chronologically, opening with Wollstonecraft's other vindication. It also includes a wide range of other relevant documents i...
