Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Romantic novelist Mary Shelley, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Literary Criticism

Albright, Richard S. "'In the mean time, what did Perdita?': Rhythms and Reversals in Mary Shelley's The Last Man." On Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1826 novel. Romanticism on the Net 13 (1999).

Brewer, William D. "Unnationalized Englishmen in Mary Shelley's Fiction." Romanticism on the Net 11 (1998).

Brewer, William D. "William Godwin, chivalry, and Mary Shelley's The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck." Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 1999.

Brewer, William D. "Mary Shelley on the therapeutic value of language." Papers on Language and Literature, Fall 1994.

Campbell Orr, Clarissa. "Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy, the Celebrity Author, and the Undiscovered Country of the Human Heart." Romanticism on the Net 11 (1998). On Mary Shelley's 1844 travel book. Campbell Orr considers the book as a portrait of Mary Shelley's attitudes and the era in which it was written, a demonstration of the kind of self-portrait possible for a woman author of travel books.

Conger, Syndy M. A review of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: An Introduction, by Betty T. Bennett. Romanticism on the Net 28 (2002).

Corbett, Robert. Introduction to "Romanticism and Science Fictions," Romanticism on the Net 21 (2001).

Crook, Nora. "Pecksie and the Elf: Did the Shelleys Couple Romantically?" Romanticism on the Net 18 (2000). On the literary collaboration and sexual relationship of Percy and Mary Shelley.

Crook, Nora. Reviews of Mary Shelley's, The Last Man, edited by McWhir, Anne; and Mary Shelley's Lodore, edited by Lisa Vargo. Romanticism on the Net.

Crook, Nora. A review of Mary Shelley's Valperga, edited by Stuart Curran. Romanticism on the Net 12 (1998).

Garbin, Lidia. "The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck: Walter Scott in the Writings of Mary Shelley." Romanticism on the Net 6 (1997). Garbin considers the change in direction, from Gothicism to historical romance, in Mary Shelley's fiction after Frankenstein.

Hilton, Nelson. Freudian discussion of Mary Shelley from Nelson Hilton's Lexis Complexes (University of Georgia Press, 1995).

Hopkins, Lisa. "The Last Man. and the Language of the Heart." Romanticism on the Net 22 (2001). On Mary Shelley's use of memory and personal experience in The Last Man..

Hopkins, Lisa. "Memory at the End of History: Mary Shelley's The Last Man." Romanticism on the Net 6 (1997).

Kielstra, Julia Paulman. Reviews of Warren Stevenson's Romanticism and the Androgynous Sublime; and Johanna M. Smith's Mary Shelley Revisited. Romanticism on the Net 6 (1997).

Labbe, Jacqueline. Labbe compares the use of maternal imagery in the writings of Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, Mary Shelley, and Maria Elizabeth Robinson. "The Romance of Motherhood: Generation and the Literary Text." Romanticism on the Net 26 (2002).

Mandell, Laura. "Introduction: The Poetess Tradition." Romanticism on the Net. 29-30 (2003).

McKeeverr, Kerry Ellen. "Writing and Melancholia: Saving the Self in Mary Shelley's 'The Mourner'." Romanticism on the Net 14 (1999).

Simpkins, Scott. "Mary Shelley revisited." Simpkins reviews The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein edited by Audrey Fisch, Anne Mellor and Esther Schor and Mary Shelley's Early Novels: "This Child of Imagination and Misery" by Jane Blumberg. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 1995.

Smith, Orianne. Smith finds connections between the work of Mary Shelley and French artist Annette Messager. "The Feminist Tradition of Mary Shelley and Annette Messager" (removed from http://www.luc.edu/faculty/osmith/anmary2.html).

Tomalin, Claire, ed. A review of Lost and Found: Mary Shelley, Maurice, or the Fisher's Cot: A Tale. Romanticism on the Net review by A. A. Markley.

White, Daniel E. "'The god undeified': Mary Shelley's Valperga, Italy, and the Aesthetic of Desire." Writes White: "Shelley offers a stark reading of the period from the failure of the French Revolution through 1821 as a mutually destructive polemic between a dominant political, social, and aesthetic masculine ideology and its feminine other, a polemic that significantly found its fittest expression and conclusion on Italian soil." In Romanticism on the Net 6 (1997).

Wolley, Rachel. A review of Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After 'Frankenstein', by Conger, Syndy M., Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O'Dea, eds. Romanticism on the Net.

Wordsworth, Jonathan. A review of The Bright Work Grows: Women Writers of the Romantic Age (Woodstock, 1997). Reviewed by Mark Sandy in Romanticism on the Net 22 (2001).

Introduction

Allen, Graham. "Mary Shelley." The Literary Encyclopedia.

"Mary Shelley." The Victorian Web. Ed. George P. Landow.

"Study Guide for Frankenstein." Glenco/McGraw-Hill. Provides an introduction to the novel and its historical context.

Sonstroem, Eric. "Do You Really Want a Revolution? CyberTheory Meets Real-Life Pedagogical Practice in FrankenMOO and the Conventional Literature Classroom." A "skeptical yet somewhat optimistic" look at the usefulness of educational MOOs, and FrankenMOO in particular. College Literature (2006).

Frankenstein

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