Anne Kostelanetz Mellor

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters

Mary Shelley

Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective.

Romanticism & Gender

Examines the political influence of women writers during this key period in British history.

Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830

Mothers of the Nation

Blake's Human Form Divine

Audrey A. Fisch

Esther H. Schor

Although Frankenstein is now widely taught in classes on Romanticism, little attention has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works. Indeed the excitement of the last decade at feminist approaches to Frankenstein has ironically obscured the persona of its author. This collection of essays, written by a preeminent group of Romantic scholars, sketches a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley": the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent interplay among issues of family, gender, and society, and whose writings resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics, culture, and feminism. By analyzing a previously neglected body of novels, novellas, reviews, travel writing, essays, letters, biographies, and tales, and by emphasizing Mary Shelley's shrewd assessment of Romanticism, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking evaluation of one of the foremost cultural critics of the nineteenth century.

Anne Kostelanetz Mellor

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