The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley

1989 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Patrick Brady ◽  
David Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Mary Shelley

A Parliament of Monsters: Romantic Nonhumans and Victorian Erasure

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Geier
Keyword(s):  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
Bartholomew Fair

Shows the robust nonhuman concern in Romantic works through new readings of Mary Shelley, Burns, Wordsworth, Clare, and Coleridge. The chapter traces these themes and forms of threatened, abject life as an expansive multispecies community of suffering. These works interrogate the weakness of expressive forms, performing the very captivity they lament. Wordsworth’s poem on the Bartholomew Fair is a fulcrum to the London studies in the book. These forms of expression are then examined in Dickens’s narratology and the narrator-object Esther in Bleak House.

Ancestral Piles

2018 ◽  
pp. 519-541
Author(s):  
Sean Moreland
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Ann Radcliffe ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
Walter Scott

This essay examines Poe’s conception and use of the Gothic via his engagements with the work of earlier writers from Horace Walpole through Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley, and E. T. A. Hoffmann. Poe’s uses of the Gothic, and his relationship with the work of these writers, was informed by his philosophical materialism and framed by his dialogue with the writings of Sir Walter Scott. Tracing these associations reveals Poe’s transformation of the idea of “Gothic structure” from an architectural model, the ancestral pile of the eighteenth-century Gothic, to one of energetic transformation, the electric pile featured in many of Poe’s tales.

The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (8) ◽  
pp. 346-346
Author(s):  
Kate Quealy-Gainer
Keyword(s):  
Mary Shelley

Literary Sources of Shelley's The Witch of Atlas

PMLA ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 472-494
Author(s):  
Carlos Baker ◽  
David Lee Clark
Keyword(s):  
Recent Article ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Source Materials

Mary Shelley, in the note she supplied to the poem, properly characterizes The Witch of Atlas as “wildly fanciful, full of brilliant imagery,” and burgeoning with “fantastic ideas.” Rather misleading is her further statement that its source materials were borrowed “from sunrise or sunset, from the yellow moonshine, or paly twilight,” a kind of emotional garner from Shelley's rambles “in the sunny land he so much loved.” For The Witch is as literary a poem in its origins as Shelley ever wrote. It teems with images which suggest Spenser, Milton, and Shakespeare, as well as Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Herodotus, and Pliny. A recent article by Professor Lowes indicates that Keats's Endymion should be added to the list of sources, with what justification Professor Clark's ensuing article makes clear.

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