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PALGRAVE LITERARY DICTIONARIES The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Martin Garrett Palgrave Literary Dictionaries Series Editors Brian G. Caraher School of English Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, Northern Ireland Elizabeth K. Switaj Liberal Arts College of the Marshall Islands Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands Palgrave Literary Dictionaries are concise reference guides containing vital information for the study and appreciation of major writers and literary groups. Alphabetical entries provide accessible and informative summaries focusing on the historical and political contexts, key themes, locations and texts, as well as the critical reception of writers including Chaucer, Spenser and Milton. Each volume contains a chronology and a selective guide to further reading. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14684 Martin Garrett The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Martin Garrett Independent Scholar Cambridge, UK Palgrave Literary Dictionaries ISBN 978-1-137-56638-6 ISBN 978-1-137-56639-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56639-3 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom To Helen Also by Martin Garrett ‘A diamond, though set in horn’: Philip Massinger’s Attitude to Spectacle Massinger: the Critical Heritage (editor) Sidney: the Critical Heritage (editor) George Gordon, Lord Byron A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning: Interviews and Recollections (editor) Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Mary Shelley: a Chronology Mary Shelley The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Byron The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of [P.B.] Shelley A Romantics Chronology, 1780–1832 Greece: a Literary Companion Traveller’s Literary Companion: Italy Venice: a Cultural and Literary Companion Cambridge: a Cultural and Literary History Provence: a Cultural History The Loire: a Cultural History Oxford vii Contents Series Editors’ Foreword xi Preface and Acknowledgements xiii Abbreviations xv Mary Shelley Chronology xix Entries A-Z 1 Bibliography 317 ix Series Editors’ Foreword The purpose of the Palgrave Literary Dictionaries is to provide the reader with immediate access to reliable information on some of the major authors of literature written in the English language. These books are intended for a readership including students, graduate students, teachers, scholars and advanced general readers. Each volume will be dedicated either to an indi- vidual author or to a group of authors. It will offer a concise reference guide, consisting mainly of entries presented under headwords arranged in alpha- betical order. The entries will vary in length from about 10 to about 3000 words, depending on the significance of the particular topic. The topics will include the literary works, individuals, fictional characters, genres, traditions, events, places, institutions, editors and scholars most relevant to a full and sophisticated understanding and appreciation of the author (or authors) in question. The more substantial entries will include suggestions for further reading, full particulars of which will be supplied in a selective bibliography. Access to information will be facilitated by extensive cross-referencing. We trust that volumes in this series will be judged by their effectiveness in providing quick, clear and convenient access to reliable and scholarly information. Belfast, Northern Ireland Brian G. Caraher Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands Elizabeth K. Switaj xi Preface and Acknowledgements The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Shelley aims to gather as much information on her life and work as can be contained in a single volume. The task has been facilitated by the publication, mainly since the 1980s, of impor- tant complete editions of her journals, letters, novels, tales, biographies, and reviews. (For a list, see Abbreviations: 1. Works by Mary Shelley.) Prefaces to books about Mary Shelley usually mention the problems or opportunities presented by Frankenstein. Much is known about the novel’s composition, revision and reception; a great deal has been written about it; and few works have generated so many sequels, reinterpretations, parodies, films, plays, illustrations and more loosely related descendants. The Dictionary aims to cover some of this material while also putting it beside the author’s many other works in a variety of genres. Helped by recent attention to under- read books by women, by the collected editions just mentioned and by indi- vidual editions of several of the novels in the Penguin, Oxford World’s Classics and Broadview series, these works have been emerging, gradually, from their unjustified neglect. The Last Man seems now to have crossed the frontier from occasionally to frequently analysed text and there is much interest in Mathilda. Development is slower for most of the other works as yet; one advantage of a dictionary format is the prominence it gives to such relatively neglected mate- rial as Shelley’s tales and particularly to her wide-ranging Literary Lives of over sixty Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French writers. Attention to the late work also provides some counter-balance to the usual concentration on Shelley’s early work and life: the lives, the authoritative notes for two major PBS editions, Lodore, Falkner and Rambles were all written and published between 1831 and 1844. xiii
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