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This long-overdue reappraisal of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's work convincingly challenges the commonly held view that she was merely a passive mouthpiece for her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, for her father, William Godwin, and for the radical milieu that surrounded her. Jane Blumberg reexamines Shelley's most challenging and ambitious novels - the best-known, Frankenstein; the historical novel Valperga; and The Last Man, a futuristic novel detailing the destruction of the world's population by plague - in light of her premise that the actual driving force in Shelley's writings was her fundamental intellectual conflict with the men in her life. Blumberg departs from traditional scholarship which has focused on the personal influences in Shelley's fiction - her father's emotional coldness, difficult childbirth and postpartum depressions, the difficulties of being a woman writer, for example - to show how these novels reflect both Shelley's assertion of her intellectual and ideological independence and her gradual rejection of Percy Shelley's radical tenets. Blumberg also gives due attention to Shelley's competent work as editor and in-house critic of Byron and Percy Shelley and p

Author

Blumberg, Jane

Publisher

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780877453970

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24