Mary Shelley reappraises the significance of Frankenstein alongside other works by Shelley which could be considered to revise the significance and fluctuating meanings of Gothic during the Romantic period. It offers scholarly, fresh readings of the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein, as well as chapters upon the fiction that Shelley composed in between both editions, and during the same decade as its second edition.
In its broader examination of Mary Shelleys work, this study is the first of its kind within the field of Gothic studies. Alongside sustained explorations of Frankenstein, Matilda, Valperga and The Last Man, the volume Mary Shelley reappraises some of the shorter essays and tales that the author composed for contemporary magazines. Angela Wright argues that the time is now right for a re-examination of the extent to which Shelley participated in and redirected the Gothic tradition.
Mary Shelley provides a detailed study of the famous authors extensive contribution to the Gothic genre. Angela Wright examines the key novels alongside the short stories, revealing how the Gothic themes and motifs that energised Frankenstein resurface in some of Shelleys later works.
Mary Shelley: A Chronology
Introduction
Chapter One: Frankenstein
Chapter Two: Matilda
Chapter Three: Valperga
Chapter Four: `On Ghosts' and The Last Man
Chapter Five: `Terror, Horror and Transformation'
Conclusion
Illustrations
Henry Fuseli. `The Nightmare'
Engraving of `Juliet' from The Keepsake for 1831
Angela Wright is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, and is currently co-President of the International Gothic Association. She is the author of Gothic Fiction (2007), Britain, France and the Gothic: The Import of Terror (2013), and co-editor with Dale Townshend of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (2014) and Romantic Gothic: an Edinburgh Companion (2015).
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