The Resource Mathilda, Mary Shelley ; edited by Michelle Faubert
Mathilda, Mary Shelley ; edited by Michelle Faubert
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The item Mathilda, Mary Shelley ; edited by Michelle Faubert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "Mary Shelley's Mathilda, the story of one woman's existential struggle after learning of her father's desire for her, has been identified as Shelley's most important work after Frankenstein. The two texts share many characteristics, besides authorship and contemporaneity: both concern parental abandonment; both contribute to the Gothic form through themes of incest, insanity, suicidality, monstrosity, and isolation; and both are epistolary. However, Mathilda was not published until 1959, 140 years after Shelley wrote it--in part because Shelley's father, William Godwin, suppressed it. This new edition encourages a critical reconsideration of a novella that has been critically stereotyped as biographical, and explores the importance of the novella to the Romantic debate about suicide. Historical appendices trace the connections between Mathilda and other works by Shelley and by her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, while also providing biographical documents, contemporary works on the theme of incest, and documents on suicide in the Romantic era."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 199 pages
- Isbn
- 9781554812271
- Label
- Mathilda
- Title
- Mathilda
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Shelley ; edited by Michelle Faubert
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Mary Shelley's Mathilda, the story of one woman's existential struggle after learning of her father's desire for her, has been identified as Shelley's most important work after Frankenstein. The two texts share many characteristics, besides authorship and contemporaneity: both concern parental abandonment; both contribute to the Gothic form through themes of incest, insanity, suicidality, monstrosity, and isolation; and both are epistolary. However, Mathilda was not published until 1959, 140 years after Shelley wrote it--in part because Shelley's father, William Godwin, suppressed it. This new edition encourages a critical reconsideration of a novella that has been critically stereotyped as biographical, and explores the importance of the novella to the Romantic debate about suicide. Historical appendices trace the connections between Mathilda and other works by Shelley and by her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, while also providing biographical documents, contemporary works on the theme of incest, and documents on suicide in the Romantic era."--
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- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDX
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- 1797-1851
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- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
- Dewey number
- 823/.7
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR5397
- LC item number
- .M378 2017
- Literary form
- novels
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Faubert, Michelle
- Series statement
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- Fathers and daughters
- Incest
- English fiction
- English fiction
- Fathers and daughters
- Incest
- Label
- Mathilda, Mary Shelley ; edited by Michelle Faubert
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199)
- Carrier category
- volume
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn964380630
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 199 pages
- Isbn
- 9781554812271
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- Label
- Mathilda, Mary Shelley ; edited by Michelle Faubert
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn964380630
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Extent
- 199 pages
- Isbn
- 9781554812271
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