Product Description

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, a story she wrote at the age of 19, is still a popular tale to this day. The novel is studied here in terms of its Romantic elements. Other works examined include Mathilda and The Last Man.

This title, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1979828 in Books
• Published on: 1985-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 205 pages

Review
"Harold Bloom adds some fantastic critical literary guides, providing interpretations and issues that should reach a wide audience from adults to young adults at the high school and college levels."

About the Author
Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), and Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996). The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist, How to Read and Why (2000), Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom be Found (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.