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1 online resource (227 pages) |
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Studies in Major Literary Authors |
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Studies in major literary authors.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Roots of Mary Shelley's Dramatic Sensibility; Chapter Three: Frankenstein: Storytelling as Dramatic Performance; Chapter Four: Mathilda: Life as Theatrical Production; Chapter Five: The Last Man: Autobiography as Drama; Chapter Six: Valperga: Theatrical Plots and Dramatic Intrigue; Chapter Seven: Perkin Warbeck: Problematic Roles and Identities; Chapter Eight: Lodore: Public Spectacle and Private Lives; Chapter Nine: Falkner: The Illusion of Romance |
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Chapter Ten: ConclusionBibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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| SUBJECT |
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 fast |
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Performing arts in literature.
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Self in literature.
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Theater in literature.
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Performing arts
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Performing arts in literature
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Psychology
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Self in literature
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Theater in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136713576 |
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1136713573 |
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