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ENG 498: Senior Seminar: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Ebooks on British Literature
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age : British Culture, 1776-1832 by ISBN: 9780191518218Publication Date: 2001-07-01For the first time, this innovative reference book surveys the Romantic Age through all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. This multi-disciplinary approach treats Romanticism both in aesthetic terms--its meaning for painting, music, design, architecture, and literature--and as a historical epoch of "revolutionary" transformations which ushered in modern democratic and industrialized society.
MARY SHELLEY entry by JB (Judith Barbour); discussed Peake
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Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives by ISBN: 9781280925368Publication Date: 2001-01-01This volume brings together studies on Mary Wollstonecraft's and Mary Shelley's pioneering life writing by some of the world's most prominent scholars. Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), and Shelley, author of Frankenstein (1818), are now widely regarded as two of the leading writers of the Romantic period. They are both responsible for opening up new possibilities for women in genres traditionally dominated by men. Among the works discussed are Wollstonecraft's Vindication, Letters from Norway, and Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman; William Godwin's Memoirs of Wollstonecraft; and Shelley's Frankenstein, The Last Man, Ladore, and Rambles in Germany and Italy. The book explores the connections between: mother and daughter, writing and life, and criticism and creation. It offers a new understanding of two important writers, of a literary period, and of emergent modes of life writing.
Print Reference
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English by Call Number: REF PR111 .F54 1990ISBN: 0300048548Publication Date: 1990-10-24This work describes the lives and work of female literary figures.
Peake - Fanboy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?? - Article in EBSCO
Frankenstein and the Mute Figure of Melodrama
| Author: | Emma Raub |
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| Edition/Format: |  Downloadable article : English |
| Publication: | Modern Drama, v55 n4 (20120101): 437-458 |
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| Database: | University of Toronto Press ejournals |
| Other Databases: | WorldCat; British Library Serials |
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In 1823, Richard Brinsley Peake, a forgotten “hack” playwright, adapted Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for the melodramatic stage and produced the image of the monster that has dominated since. Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein and its lead actor, T.P. Cooke, introduced the convention of playing Shelley’s creature as an inarticulate beast. The few scholarly works on Presumption accuse Peake of merely silencing and thereby dehumanizing Shelley’s expressive creation. Yet the production radically reinterpreted the monster by way of the most sympathetic and articulate role of the melodramatic stage: the voiceless but virtuous mute. “Frankenstein and the Mute Figure of Melodrama” traces the way Presumption appropriates and adapts the conventions of melodramatic muteness. It shows how Peake physically constructed Shelley’s monster as both victim and villain, juxtaposing the creature’s innocence, expressed in mute gesture, with the inhumanity conveyed by Cooke’s makeup and costume, thus compelling nineteenth-century theatregoers to locate both within a single character. Such a conclusion suggests not only a radical re-evaluation of Peake’s engagement with Shelley: it implies as well a revised and much richer history, even at this early date, of the valence and operations of melodramatic muteness as well as the ostensible moral legibility of melodramatic drama. Read more...
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Print Book - History of English Literature
The Short Oxford History of English Literature by Call Number: PR83 .S26 2004ISBN: 9780199263387Publication Date: 2004-11-04The Short Oxford History of English Literature provides a comprehensive and authoritative introductory guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day, including a full treatment of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh writing in English. The chapters are arranged chronologically, covering all major periods of English literature from Old English to the post-war era, including the medieval period, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Romanticism, the Victorians, Modernism, and Postmodernism. In addition to a detailed discussion of all major figures and their works, Andrew Sanders examines throughout the relationship between the literary landscape and wider contemporary social, political, and intellectual developments. This edition contains a range of new entries on important contemporary authors and an increased focus on female writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as well as a fully updated and revised bibliography.
