"All the World's a Stage": Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels Contributor(s): Bunnell, Charlene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415938635 ISBN-13: 9780415938631 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2002 Annotation: 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 "Mathilde," Bunnell provides essential biographical and historical information and composition history of the texts and also broadens the narrow scope of Shelley's reception. |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Reference - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 823.7 |
LCCN: 2002002526 |
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors |
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.74" W x 8.68" (0.82 lbs) 228 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels. |