Table of Contents

Dedication Editor's Preface Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; N.Cook PART I: THE CRAFT OF WRITING In Defence of the 1831 Frankenstein; N.Cook The Ends of the Fragment, the Problem of the Preface: Proliferation and Finality in The Last Man; S.Thomas Mary Shelley and Edward Bulwer: Lodore as Hybrid Fiction; R.Cronin PART II: GENDER Don't Say 'I Love You': Agency, Gender, and Romanticism in Mary Shelley's Matilda; A.Francois & D.Mozes Mary Shelley's Valperga : Italy and the Revision of Romantic Aesthetics; D.E.White Gender, Authorship and Male Domination: Mary Shelley's Limited Freedom in Frankenstein and The Last Man; M.Eberle-Sinatra The Truth in Masquerade: Cross-Dressing and Disguise in Mary Shelley's Short Stories; A.A.Markley PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE 'Little England': Anxieties of Space in Mary Shelley's The Last Man; J.M.Wright Mary Shelley and Walter Scott: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck and the Historical Novel; L.Garbin Mary Shelley and the Lake Poets: Negation and Transcendence in Lodore; D.Vallins Lodore : A Tale of the Present Time?; F.Stafford PART IV: THE PARENTAL LEGACY The Corpse in the Corpus: Frankenstein , Rewriting Wollstonecraft and the Abject; M.Mulvey-Roberts Rehabilitating the Family in Mary Shelley's Falkner; J.Saunders Public and Private Fidelity: Mary Shelley's 'Life of William Godwin' and Falkner; G.Allen Index

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GRAHAM ALLEN Lecturer, Department of English, University College, Cork RICHARD CRONIN Lecturer, University of Glasgow NORA COOK Reader in English, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge ANNE-LISE FRANA OIS Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University College, Berkeley LIDIA GARBIN University of Liverpool A.A. MARKLEY Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University, Deleware County DANIEL MOZES Lecturer, City University, New York and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lehman College of CUNY MARIE MULVEY-ROBERTS Senior Lecturer in English, University of the West of England, Bristol JULIA SAUNDERS Wolfson College, Oxford FIONA STAFFORD Tutor in English, Somerville College, Oxford SOPHIE THOMAS Lecturer in English, University of Sussex DAVID VALLINS Research Fellow in English, University of Hong Kong DANIEL E. WHITE Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Puget Sound JULIA M. WRIGHT Assistant Professor of English, University of Waterloo

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GRAHAM ALLEN Lecturer, Department of English, University College, Cork RICHARD CRONIN Lecturer, University of Glasgow NORA COOK Reader in English, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge ANNE-LISE FRANÇOIS Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University College, Berkeley LIDIA GARBIN University of Liverpool A.A. MARKLEY Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University, Deleware County DANIEL MOZES Lecturer, City University, New York and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Lehman College of CUNY MARIE MULVEY-ROBERTS Senior Lecturer in English, University of the West of England, Bristol JULIA SAUNDERS Wolfson College, Oxford FIONA STAFFORD Tutor in English, Somerville College, Oxford SOPHIE THOMAS Lecturer in English, University of Sussex DAVID VALLINS Research Fellow in English, University of Hong Kong DANIEL E. WHITE Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Puget Sound JULIA M. WRIGHT Assistant Professor of English, University of Waterloo.

Reviews

Thanks to the critical ingenuity and scholarship of the contributors to Mary Shelley's Fictions, it is now more difficult thanever to refer to Shelley only as the author of Frankenstein. The Wordsworth Circle