The Godwins and the Shelleys

The Godwins and the Shelleys PDF Author: William St Clair
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801842337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Based on a thorough exploration of the vast family archives, The Godwins and the Shelleys sheds new light not only on an exceptional family but on the history and literature of the revolutionary and romantic age.

The Godwins and the Shelleys

The Godwins and the Shelleys PDF Author: William St Clair
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801842337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Based on a thorough exploration of the vast family archives, The Godwins and the Shelleys sheds new light not only on an exceptional family but on the history and literature of the revolutionary and romantic age.

Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson

Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson PDF Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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William Godwin

William Godwin PDF Author: Peter Marshall
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 162963400X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 849

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William Godwin has long been known for his literary connections as the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, the father of Mary Shelley, the friend of Coleridge, Lamb, and Hazlitt, the mentor of the young Wordsworth, Southey, and Shelley, and the opponent of Malthus. Godwin has been recently recognized, however, as the most capable exponent of philosophical anarchism, an original moral thinker, a pioneer in socialist economics and progressive education, and a novelist of great skill. His long life straddled two centuries. Not only did he live at the center of radical and intellectual London during the French Revolution, he also commented on some of the most significant changes in British history. Shaped by the Enlightenment, he became a key figure in English Romanticism. Basing his work on extensive published and unpublished materials, Peter Marshall has written a comprehensive study of this flamboyant and fascinating figure. Marshall places Godwin firmly in his social, political, and historical context; he traces chronologically the origin and development of Godwin’s ideas and themes; and he offers a critical estimate of his works, recognizing the equal value of his philosophy and literature and their mutual illumination. The picture of Godwin that emerges is one of a complex man and a subtle and revolutionary thinker, one whose influence was far greater than is usually assumed. In the final analysis, Godwin stands forth not only as a rare example of a man who excelled in both philosophy and literature but as one of the great humanists in the Western tradition.

Death and the Maidens

Death and the Maidens PDF Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448212529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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1816 was the fateful year when the Romantic poet Shelley and his lover Mary shared a hectic creative and sexual menage in Switzerland with Lord Byron. This intense period drew from the men some of the greatest poetry of the age; from Mary, it elicited the seminal figures of Frankenstein and his Creature. But for other women close to Shelley it was a time of tragedy. At the heart of the story are Fanny Wollstonecraft and Harriet Westbrook, women whose lives were literally overwhelmed by him – and who both committed suicide before the year was out. "Not only a splendid work of feminist history, this is an important addition to late 18th- and early 19-century literary criticism." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Caleb Williams

Caleb Williams PDF Author: William Godwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Eternal Frankenstein

Eternal Frankenstein PDF Author: Ross E. Lockhart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939905239
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Word Horde is proud to publish Eternal Frankenstein, an anthology edited by Ross E. Lockhart, featuring sixteen resurrecting tales of terror and wonder paying tribute to Mary Shelley, her Monster, and their entwined legacy.

Rosalind and Helen

Rosalind and Helen PDF Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Frankenstein Diaries: the Romantics

Frankenstein Diaries: the Romantics PDF Author: Michael January
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692429716
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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The inspiration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's most famous work, "Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus" has been debated for 200 years. In 1814, two years before the notorious "Gothic Summer" in Geneva, 16 year old Mary Godwin eloped to Paris with the 22 year old poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, inviting Mary's 15 year old step-sister Claire Claremont to go with them. They would walk across war ravaged France to Switzerland and up the Rhine River to a castle called Frankenstein. Three years later Mary would publish the diaries she kept of that journey of two teenage girls and the poet of "free love". In the published version of "A History of a Six Week's Tour" she would tell where they went and what they saw, but she never revealed the true secrets of that trip, from where a later inspiration arose. Here now, for the first time is revealed the secret portions of that tour and beyond.

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period PDF Author: William St Clair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521810067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 806

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Caleb Williams

Caleb Williams PDF Author: William Godwin
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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