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England's First Family of Writers
Julie A. Carlson
其他書名
Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley
出版
JHU Press
, 2007-07-01
主題
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
ISBN
0801891833
9780801891830
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=U2xcEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
A collective consideration of Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Shelley with “extended and sophisticated readings of many of [their] neglected works” (
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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.