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Mary Shelley’s third published novel, __The Last Man__, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley’s treatment of the theme goes beyond the conventional; it is extraordinarily interesting and deeply moving. If __The Last Man__ is in some sense a “conventional” text of the period, it is also intensely personal in its origin; Shelley refers in her journal to the last man as her alter ego, “the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.” The novel thus develops out of and contributes to a network of story and idea in which fantasy, allusion, convention, and autobiography are densely interwoven. This new version of the first edition (1826) sets out to provide not only a thoroughly annotated text, but also contextual materials to help the reader acquire knowledge of the intellectual and literary milieu out of which the novel emerged. Appendices include material on “the last man” as early nineteenth-century hero, texts from the debate initiated by Malthus in 1798 about

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Author

Mary Shelley, Anne McWhir

Publisher

Broadview Press Inc.

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585229355

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror

Rating

3.33 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14