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This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last Man and Mathilda and her tales, reviews, travel writing and the (until recently neglected) Literary Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French writers. There are detailed entries on her personal and/or literary relationship with her parents Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, Coleridge and Claire Clairmont; on her religion, feminism, politics, relation to Romanticism, portraits and representation in drama, film and television; and on the influence of her work on such writers as Poe, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontës, Dickens and H.G. Wells.
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PALGRAVE LITERARY DICTIONARIES The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Martin Garrett Palgrave Literary Dictionaries Series Editors Brian G. Caraher School of English Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland Elizabeth K. Switaj Liberal Arts College of the Marshall Islands Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands Palgrave Literary Dictionaries are concise reference guides containing vital information for the study and appreciation of major writers and literary groups. Alphabetical entries provide accessible and informative summaries focusing on the historical and political contexts, key themes, locations and texts, as well as the critical reception of writers including Chaucer, Spenser and Milton. Each volume contains a chronology and a selective guide to further reading. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14684 Martin Garrett The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Martin Garrett Independent Scholar Cambridge, UK Palgrave Literary Dictionaries ISBN 978-1-137-56638-6 ISBN 978-1-137-56639-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56639-3 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Limited. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom To Helen Also by Martin Garrett ‘A diamond, though set in horn’: Philip Massinger’s Attitude to Spectacle Massinger: the Critical Herita