Mary Shelley in Her Times
Contributors: Betty T. Bennett (Editor); Stuart Curran (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780801877339
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Mary Shelley created in her first and last novels two characters who, like philosophic bookends, reflect, extend, and comment on each other and the works in which they appear: Elizabeth Lavenza in Frankenstein (1818) and Elizabeth Raby in Falkner (1837).