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"All the World's a Stage" by Charlene Brunnell
Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels
This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of the theatrum mundi , world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels from Frankenstein, Mathilda, Valperga and The Last Man to The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck, Lodore and Falkner . Perceiving the world as a stage on which to enact one's personal ambition or to impose one's restructured version of life's 'drama', the characters in these novels, Bunnell shows, confuse the boundaries between illusion/reality, self/other and public/private to disastrous ends for themselves and those around them. In addition to an illuminating reading of Shelley's six novels and the novella Mathilda , Bunnell provides essential biographical and historical information as well as composition history of the texts and also broadens the narrow scope of Shelley's reception. Although Shelley is considered a major author in the Romantic canon, her reputation is based almost exclusively on Frankenstein . As this book shows, her other novels require sustained examination.
Studying her major works with a theatrical approach not only reveals thematic pattern, but also suggests a strong link to the Gothic and sensibility novels of the eighteenth century. |
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| Author(s) : Charlene Brunnell | Format : Hardback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0415938635 | ISBN-13 : 9780415938631 |
| RRP : £50.00 | Best available price : £47.48 / $84.97 |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Studies in Major Literary Authors
Country Publication : United States
Publication Date : 09/05/2002
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Ltd
Page Length : 176mm
Page Size : 221mm