Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft

Publication Data

• Title Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft
• Author Tilottama Rajan
• Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Baltimore, Md.
• Language English

Contents

The trauma of lyric: Shelley's missed encounter with poetry in Alastor
Shelley's Promethean narratives: gothic anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. Irvyne, and Prometheus unbound
Unbinding the personal: autonarration, epistolarity and genotext in Mary Hays' Memoirs of Emma Courtney
The scene of judgment: trial and confession in Godwin's Caleb Williams and other fiction
Gambling, alchemy, speculation: Godwin's critique of pure reason in St. Leon
Whose text?: Godwin's editing of Mary Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman.

Topics

• Godwin, William, 1756-1836 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Hays, Mary, 1759 or 1760-1843 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797 :: Criticism and interpretation
• English fiction :: 18th century :: History and criticism :: Theory, etc.
• English literature :: 18th century :: History and criticism :: Theory, etc.
• English literature :: 19th century :: History and criticism :: Theory, etc.
• 015618866

Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft by Tilottama Rajan. ISBN 9780801897214. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.