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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195108825
ISBN-13
9780195108828
eBay Product ID (ePID)
292686
Product Key Features
Book Title
Valperga: Or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Topic
Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Book Series
Women Writers in English 1350-1850 Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18.7 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
96-038744
Reviews
",,,Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and an affordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful, learned and tactful...[and] he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronology and selective bibliography."--The Wordsworth Circle"Curran dazzles us with the meticulous and thorough editing that we have come to expect from him....an excellent resource for scholarly study....At every step, Curran quietly and thoroughly immerses readers in the complex historical, political, and biographical context of the novel."--Romantic Circles, ",,,Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and an affordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful, learned and tactful...[and] he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronology and selective bibliography."--The Wordsworth Circle"Curran dazzles us with the meticulous and thorough editing that we have come to expect from him....an excellent resource for scholarly study....At every step, Curran quietly and thoroughly immerses readers in the complex historical, political, and biographical context of the novel."--Romantic Circles",,,Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and an affordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful, learned and tactful...[and] he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronology and selective bibliography."--The Wordsworth Circle"Curran dazzles us with the meticulous and thorough editing that we have come to expect from him....an excellent resource for scholarly study....At every step, Curran quietly and thoroughly immerses readers in the complex historical, political, and biographical context of the novel."--Romantic Circles, ",,,Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and an affordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful, learned and tactful...[and] he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronology and selective bibliography."--The Wordsworth Circle "Curran dazzles us with the meticulous and thorough editing that we have come to expect from him....an excellent resource for scholarly study....At every step, Curran quietly and thoroughly immerses readers in the complex historical, political, and biographical context of the novel."--Romantic Circles, ",,,Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and anaffordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful,learned and tactful...[and] he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronologyand selective bibliography."--The Wordsworth Circle, "Curran dazzles us with the meticulous and thorough editing that we have come to expect from him....an excellent resource for scholarly study....At every step, Curran quietly and thoroughly immerses readers in the complex historical, political, and biographical context of the novel."--RomanticCircles, "Curran dazzles us with the meticulous and thorough editing that we havecome to expect from him....an excellent resource for scholarly study....At everystep, Curran quietly and thoroughly immerses readers in the complex historical,political, and biographical context of the novel."--Romantic Circles, ",,,Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and an affordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful, learned and tactful...[and] he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronology and selective bibliography."--The Wordsworth Circle, ",,,Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and an affordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful, learned and tactful...[and] he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronology and selective bibliography."--The Wordsworth Circle "Curran dazzles us with the meticulous and thorough editing that we have come to expect from him....an excellent resource for scholarly study....At every step, Curran quietly and thoroughly immerses readers in the complex historical, political, and biographical context of the novel."--RomanticCircles, ",,,Curran's edition is an excellent resource for scholarly study and an affordable alternative for the classroom....Curran's footnotes are useful, learned and tactful...[and] he provides a suggestive and illuminating chronology and selective bibliography."-- The Wordsworth Circle "Curran dazzles us with the meticulous and thorough editing that we have come to expect from him....an excellent resource for scholarly study....At every step, Curran quietly and thoroughly immerses readers in the complex historical, political, and biographical context of the novel."-- Romantic Circles
Synopsis
Valperga, published in 1823 and reprinted here for the first time, was Mary Shelley's second novel, the successor to Frankenstein. Set in fourteenth-century Tuscany, the novel shares certain structural features with the popular fictions of Sir Walter Scott, most notably the novel Ivanhoe with its contrasting heroines, but Mary Shelley's work pointedly challenges Scott's model, inverting his masculinist and conservative outlook, foregrounding the lives of its principal women, Euthanasia dei Adimari and Beatrice of Ferrara, and attaching to the figure of Castruccio Castracani, Prince of Lucca, a retrograde authoritarianism and sterile lust for power. Valperga, steeped in Mary Shelley's command of local Italian history and culture, offers the vivid pleasures of accomplished historical fiction while at the same time representing in the clash between Castruccio and Euthanasia a struggle between autocracy and liberal democracy that speaks directly to the contemporary political tensions of post-Napoleonic Europe. Timed for Mary Shelley's bicentennial and superbly introduced by Stuart Curran, this exciting new edition makes available a bold yet little-known work by one of the finest minds in English letters., This new addition to the Women Writers in English series reprints Mary Shelley's second novel, first published in 1823. Although the novel was a commercially unsuccessful follow-up to Shelley's Frankenstein, this absorbing tale of the adventures and misadventures of a Tuscan prince vividly demonstrates Shelley's mastery of political history, which was unique among women of her time. It is sure to be a major highlight of the Mary Shelley bicentenary in 1997., 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., Valperga , published in 1823 and reprinted here for the first time, was Mary Shelley's second novel, the successor to Frankenstein . Set in fourteenth-century Tuscany, the novel shares certain structural features with the popular fictions of Sir Walter Scott, most notably the novel Ivanhoe with its contrasting heroines, but Mary Shelley's work pointedly challenges Scott's model, inverting his masculinist and conservative outlook, foregrounding the lives of its principal women, Euthanasia dei Adimari and Beatrice of Ferrara, and attaching to the figure of Castruccio Castracani, Prince of Lucca, a retrograde authoritarianism and sterile lust for power. Valperga , steeped in Mary Shelley's command of local Italian history and culture, offers the vivid pleasures of accomplished historical fiction while at the same time representing in the clash between Castruccio and Euthanasia a struggle between autocracy and liberal democracy that speaks directly to the contemporary political tensions of post-Napoleonic Europe. Timed for Mary Shelley's bicentennial and superbly introduced by Stuart Curran, this exciting new edition makes available a bold yet little-known work by one of the finest minds in English letters.
LC Classification Number
PR5397.V3 1997
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