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Europe: the right of autonomously governed communities to political liberty in the face of imperialistic encroachment. She opposes
Castruccio's compulsive greed for conquest with an alternative, Euthanasia's government of Valperga on the principles of
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earned largely positive reviews, but it was judged as a love story, its ideological and political framework overlooked. It was not, however, republished in Mary
Shelley's lifetime, and she later remarked that it never had "fair play". Recently,
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possesses extreme power, and displays capabilities such as I did hope would have produced far different things from
Castruccio. … But whence arises the extreme inferiority of
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again — for I thought I must have been strangely mistaken in my original judgment. So far, however, from this, a second reading has confirmed it. I think
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The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary
Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen
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Iconoclastic
Departures: Mary Shelley after "Frankenstein": Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley's Birth
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Frankenstein. Eds. Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, and Esther H. Schor. New York: New York
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Frankenstein. Eds. Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, and Esther H. Schor. New York: New York
University Press, 1993.
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Rajan, Rilottama. "Between
Romance and History: Possibility and Contingency in Godwin, Leibniz, and Mary Shelley's
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has been praised for its sophisticated narrative form and its authenticity of detail. In 1824, a reviewer for
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Lokke, Kari. "'Children of Liberty': Idealist Historiography in Staël, Shelley, and Sand".
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Mary Shelley's Early Novels: "This Child of Imagination and Misery"
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into English: Historical Romance, Biography or Gothic Fiction?".
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