...This chapter brings together Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with Friedrich Nietzsche's fragmentary speculations on love and friendship. Shelley and Nietzsche each write the illusory enchantments of the romance of love and the paradoxical chiasmic intersections between mundane love...

..., vol. I (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), 533. 7. Charlotte Gordon , Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (New York: Random House, 2015), 476. 8. Bennett, The Letters of MWS, 533 . 9. Ibid. , 556...

...This essay introduces ‘resistive embodiment’ as a keyword for critical examination of strategies of writing in Mary Shelley’s novel Mathilda. Strategies of writing in the novel parallel similar discourse in women’s writing of the era, whereby bodies are variously depicted...

...This chapter focuses on the figure of the blind man in the works of Mary Shelley, noting that while the blind man is not central to her works, it is still relevant enough. In Frankenstein, the blind man serves as the only person who cannot react with prejudice to the hideousness...

...This chapter brings Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in conversation with two moral sentiment philosophers of the 18^th century, Joseph Butler and David Hume. It focuses on the connection between the modern restitutive trope and reparation as premised on shared humanity...

... landscapes. Crossing borders, political divides and genres, this study examines the intersections of literary works by Mary Shelley, Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson), Giovanni Ruffini, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others with journalism, parliamentary records and pamphlets, to establish...

... works of Romanticism, and the political culture of the 1790s, the book provides an alternative to the model of retreat which has dominated accounts of Romanticism over the last century. It offers a fresh understanding of canonical works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Godwin, Mary Shelley and Carlyle who all...

...Chapter 1 analyses Romantic-era responses to the Congress of Vienna and 1820-1 Italian uprisings, with attention to Lady Morgan’s travelogue Italy (1821) and Mary Shelley’s historical novel Valperga (1823). Although the tropes of decay and rebirth that pervade British Romantic poetry about Italy...

...Continuing in the Queer Romantic Gothic vein, this chapter delves into female homoerotic readings of Charlotte Dacre’s Zafloya, or, The Moor (1806) and then Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) within a trans theoretical framework...