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Mathilda

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Mathilda Synopsis

Mary Shelley’s Mathilda, the story of one woman’s existential struggle after learning of her father’s desire for her, has been identified as Shelley’s most important work after Frankenstein. The two texts share many characteristics, besides authorship and contemporaneity: both concern parental abandonment; both contribute to the Gothic form through themes of incest, insanity, suicidality, monstrosity, and isolation; and both are epistolary. However, Mathilda was not published until 1959, 140 years after Shelley wrote it—in part because Shelley’s father, William Godwin, suppressed it. This new edition encourages a critical reconsideration of a novella that has been critically stereotyped as biographical and explores its importance to the Romantic debate about suicide. Historical appendices trace the connections between Mathilda and other works by Shelley and by her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, while also providing biographical documents, contemporary works on the theme of incest, and documents on suicide in the Romantic era. For Michelle Faubert’s transcription of Mathilda for the Shelley-Godwin Archive, click here.

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ISBN: 9781554812271
Publication date: 30th August 2017
Author: Mary Shelley
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 208 pages
Series: Broadview Editions
Genres: Classics
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers