Valperga : or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Women Writers in English 1350-1850
ISBN-10
0195108825
ISBN-13
9780195108828
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 12th, 1998
Print length
480 Pages
Weight
499 grams
Dimensions
20.60 x 14.00 x 3.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary essaysLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Mary Shelley's second novel, "Valperga" was unsuccessful when first published. Her subject matter and unconventional approach to historical fiction may now delight 20th-century readers where it failed with those in the Romantic era.
Not reprinted since its first edition, Mary Shelley''s second novel is a major discovery of the Mary Shelley bicentenary of 1997. The novel''s lack of success as a follow-up to Frankenstein was the result of its subject matter and unconventional approach to the genre of historical fiction, attributes that can only delight the twentieth-century reader. Shelley''s mastery of the intricate details of thirteenth-century Tuscan politics is unique among women of her time, and her resolute filtering of the bloody heroics of the age through the sensibilities of two women who are destroyed by them reveals the feminist perspective missing so conspicuously from her first novel. The lastest addition to the acclaimed Women Writers in English series, this glittering novel from Romanticism''s premier woman storyteller belongs on the shelves of all serious readers of English fiction.
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