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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Mary Shelley"”.
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Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley: From Local to Global Ecology
… century: Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) and Mary Shelley (1797-1851). The six primary texts that I put under an ecofeminist lens are Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), and The Italian (1797), along with Mary Shelley’s …
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Genre and Politics in the Historical Fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley
… the historical fictions of William Godwin and Mary Shelley, specifically considering the importance of Godwin’s unpublished essay on genre, “Of History and Romance” (1797), in the creation of a unique approach to historical fiction, the Godwinian historical novel. To do this, three texts will …
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… the way in which two nineteenth century women, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, rewrote the myth. Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, presents two Promethean figures - the scientist and the monster - and so embodies the ambivalence of its author. Barrett Browning translated Aeschylus's …
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The Godwinian psychology of hope and its legacy in the work of Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley
… political economy in the late 1790s. Percy Shelley defined his literary project as an attempt to revive liberal hope in the wake of the `failure' of the French Revolution, a definition initiated by his reading of Godwin. His reaction against Wordsworthian conservatism is framed in the terms …
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Prometheus liberated
<p>This thesis investigates the influences of Mary Shelley and trace her construction of Frankenstein. While previous studies have researched Mary Shelley or her novel, little attention has been devoted to considering both. This study takes a close look at the life of Mary Shelley and her novel …
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“O Bella Libertà”: the Experience of Travel and the Representation of Italy in the Works of Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot
… century. A close reading of literary texts by Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and George Eliot will help establish a connection between their journey to the Peninsula and their development as women and writers. The separation from their homeland and the confrontation with Italian …
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Frankenstein: a monstrous romanticism
… thesis is to examine the relationship between Mary Shelley's first novel Frankenstein and her own understanding of Romanticism. The overarching theme is to illustrate how Mary Shelley navigates her criticism of Romanticism through the medium of Victor Frankenstein as a character. With the …
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The Divided Self: Internal Conflict in Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience
… works of Edgar Allan Poe, Don DeLillo, and Mary Shelley. It examines the ways in which artistic renderings alternately assimilate, resist, and/or critique dominant philosophical, psychological, and scientific discourses about the self and its divisions. This dissertation argues that the …
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Hideous Progeny, Dreaming Robots, and the Limits of the Human
… of three different works: novels Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, and the movie Bladerunner by Ridley Scott. I will be approaching each story as a separate entity unto themselves yet tie them together through the common lens of a need to …
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"Airy Children of Our Brain": Emotion, Science and the Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy in the Shelley Circle, 1812-1821
… the mind through selected texts written by the Shelley circle, including P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Lord Byron. Emotion is a significant variable that dominates human existence. For this reason, the concept of emotion continues to intrigue numerous scientists working today in the fields of …
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Natural history and British women writers, 1730-1830
… including Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Shelley, often claimed scientific superiority to naturalists to destabilize seemingly fixed identities and revise not only biological but also social and literary taxonomies. For example, my third chapter explores Anna Seward’s development of a …
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Science, politics, and soul-making: the Romantic encounter with climate change
… writers from 1780 to 1880 (William Cowper, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats and John Ruskin), I argue that an epistemic shift occurred in the way Britons understood their own climate’s history and its relationship to the earth’s climate. Using an ecohistorical method that combines close …
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Lord Byron and women's writing
… these relations. Particular case studies – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Madame de Staël, Joanne Baillie, and Mary Shelley – are framed within wider considerations of Byron’s engagement with women writers. Building upon formative inquiries into the idea of influence (Kristeva and Barthes), and more …
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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.
… ideas of the abyss. These are Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. During the course of this study I consider various ideas applied by the authors about the abyssal limits and what …
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Monsters at the End of the World: A Socio-Historical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Horror and Apocalypse Literature
<p>This dissertation examines Mary Shelley’s <em>Frankenstein</em> (1818) and <em>The Last Man</em> (1826), and H. G. Wells’s <em>The Time Machine</em> (1895) and <em>The Island of Doctor Moreau</em> (1896) as examples of nineteenth-century horror and apocalypse literature. Specifically, I argue …
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Her Hideous Progeny: <em>Frankenstein</em>'s Legacy, Adaptability, and Contemporary Prominence to Critical Story Telling
… thesis situates the narrative of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with two contemporary adaptations Get Out (2017) by Jordan Peele and Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos. The original 1818 Frankenstein text is composed of different discourses about race, gender, monstrosity, and what it means to …
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
… Godwin, Caleb Williams, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer. This investigation has been instigated by three major elements noted in the criticism on Hardy’s literary art in general and on his tragedies in particular. First, although Hardy …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights. However, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, and Emily Brontë, the three women writers who craft these characters, both confirm and challenge race stereotypes. The first four chapters of this thesis will explore the construct of race and how it is reflected and …
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Touching Time: Forms of Romantic Temporality
… Godwin, George Colman the Younger, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, and Mary Shelley, I uncover a radical Romantic aesthetic that critiques the politics of witness and privileges the politics of social implication. We are accustomed to thinking of Romantic literature as representing a new …
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