Description: Mathilda, Paperback by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Faubert, Michelle (EDT), ISBN 1554812275, ISBN-13 9781554812271, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Mary Shelley’s Mathilda, the story of one woman’s existential struggle after learning of her father’s desire for her, has been identified as Shelley’s most important work after Frankenstein. The two texts share many characteristics, besides authorship and contemporaneity: both concern parental abandonment; both contribute to the Gothic form through themes of incest, insanity, suicidality, monstrosity, and isolation; and both are epistolary. However, Mathilda was not published until 1959, 140 years after Shelley wrote it—in part because Shelley’s father, William Godwin, suppressed it. This new edition encourages a critical reconsideration of a novella that has been critically stereotyped as biographical and explores its importance to the Romantic debate about suicide. Historical appendices trace the connections between Mathilda and other works by Shelley and by her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, while also providing biographical documents, contemporary works on the theme of incest, and documents on suicide in the Romantic era. For Michelle Faubert’s transcription of Mathilda for the Shelley-Godwin Archive,
Price: 22.68 USD
Location: Jessup, Maryland
End Time: 2025-02-12T14:46:25.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Mathilda
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Broadview Press
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Classics, General
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Fiction
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Mary Shelley
Book Series: Broadview Editions Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
