England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley

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A collective consideration of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Shelley with “extended and sophisticated readings of many of [their] neglected works” (Choice).Life and literature were inseparable for Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. In England’s First Family of Writers, Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how and why the works of these individuals can best be understood within the context of the family unit in which they were created.The first to consider their writing collectively, Carlson finds in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley dynasty a family of writers whose works are in intimate dialogue with each other. For them, literature made love and produced children, as well as mourned, memorialized, and reanimated the dead.Construing the ways in which this family’s works minimize the differences between books and persons, writing and living, Carlson offers a nonsentimental account of the extent to which books can live and inform life and death. Carlson also examines the unorthodox clan’s status as England’s first family of writers. She explores how, over time, their reception has evinced ongoing public resistance to those who critique family values.
Copyright:
2007

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
344 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780801891830
Related ISBNs:
9780801886188
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Johns Hopkins University Press
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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