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"All the World's a Stage": Dramatic Sensibility in Mary Shelley's Novels
Contributor(s): Bunnell, Charlene (Author)

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 ISBN: 0415938635     ISBN-13: 9780415938631
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $152.00  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2002
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Annotation: This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of the"theatrum mundi," world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels from "Frankenstein, Mathilda, Valperga" and" The Last Man" to "The Fortunes of Perkin" "Warbeck, Lodore and Falkner." Perceiving the world as a stage on which to enact one's personal ambition or to impose one's restructured version of life's 'drama', the characters in these novels, Bunnell shows, confuse the boundaries between illusion/reality, self/other and public/private to disastrous ends for themselves and those around them. In addition to an illuminating reading of Shelley's six novels and the novella "Mathilde," Bunnell provides essential biographical and historical information and composition history of the texts and also broadens the narrow scope of Shelley's reception.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Reference
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 823.7
LCCN: 2002002526
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.74" W x 8.68" L (0.82 lbs) 228 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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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.
 
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