This dissertation examines how the novels of Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, and Assia Djebar explore the complicity of Enlightenment humanism and imperialism in different models of modernity. The paradox of Enlightenment humanism was that, in positing a universal, human subject a…
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This study examined Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which foreshadows the Victorian period, and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, which reflects on it. The two novels are both monster stories that share many similarities, including themes of creativity and morality. However…
Rev. ed. of: Child of light. 1951. Describes the life of the author of "Frankenstein" and wife of the famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelly.
Examines Mary Shelley's life and work including her novels, Frankenstein and The Last Man.
"Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevan…
"Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevan…
Biographical entries of 80 authors, from Douglas Adams to Jane Yolen, with vital information, photos, bibliographies, sources, movie adaptations, and quotes.
