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Valperga Mary Shelley

Valperga By Mary Shelley

Valperga by Mary Shelley

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Summary

Originally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley's most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it represents a merging of historical romance and the literature of sentiment. Incorporating intriguing feminist elements, this absorbing novel shows Shelley as a complex and intellectually astute thinker.

Valperga Summary

Valperga by Mary Shelley

Originally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley's most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it represents a merging of historical romance and the literature of sentiment. Incorporating intriguing feminist elements, this absorbing novel shows Shelley as a complex and intellectually astute thinker.

Valperga Reviews

This is a superb edition of Mary Shelley's historical romance Valperga. Professor Rajan provides an extremely illuminating introduction to the novel, one that if finely informed by her extensive knowledge of women's literary history, Italian history, British Romanticism, and critical theory. She sensitively analyses the ways in which Shelly's complex bio-textual relationships to both her husband and her father play out in the novel. She also provides extensive and invaluable annotations, chronologies, appendices of relevant writings by Godwin, Sismondi, Machiavelli, and the earliest reviews of the novel. - Anne K. Mellor, UCLA

About Mary Shelley

Tillottama Rajan is one of Canada's most distinguished Romanticists. She is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, in the Department of English, University of Western Ontario.

Table of Contents

Appendix A: from Godwin's Of History and Romance

Appendix B: from Machiavelli's Life of Castruccio

Appendix C: Extract from Draft Manuscript

Appendix D: from Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics of the Middle Ages, II: 110-12 (translation Rajan)

Appendix E: Reviews of Valperga

  1. From The Ladies' Monthly Museum 17 (April, 1823)
  2. From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 13 (1823)
  3. From The Examiner 788 (March 2, 1823)
  4. From The Literary Gazette, and Journal of the Belles Lettres 319 (March 1, 1823)
  5. From Monthly Review 101 (May, 1823)

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Additional information

GOR003605570
9781551111445
1551111446
Valperga by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley
Broadview Editions
Used - Good
Paperback
Broadview Press Ltd
19980821
492
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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