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England's First Family of Writers : Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley by Julie Ann Carlson; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Life and literature were inseparable in the daily lives of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. In England's First Family of Writers , Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how and why the works of these individuals can best be understood within the context of the family unit in which they were created. The first to consider their writing collectively, Carlson finds in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley dynasty a family of writers whose works are in intimate dialogue with each other. For them, literature made love and produced children, as well as mourned, memorialized, and reanimated the dead. Construing the ways in which this family's works minimize the differences between books and persons, writing and living, Carlson offers a nonsentimental account of the extent to which books can live and inform life and death. Carlson also examines the unorthodox clan's status as England's first family of writers. She explores how, over time, their reception has evinced ongoing public resistance to those who critique family values.

Who reads England's First Family of Writers : Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Julie Ann Carlson; ProQuest (Firm)
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780801886188
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Humanities

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