A Different Earth: Literary Space in Mary Shelley's Novels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783825369835)

Inspired by the "spatial turn," this book takes a fresh look at three of Mary Shelley's novels: 'Frankenstein', 'The Last Man', and 'Lodore'. It examines the literary and social spaces constructed in these three novels. The novels complement each other in the way in which the interaction between text and space is played through in each of them. In all three, however, space emerges as a socially and politically powerful construct, and the literary text itself is seen to play an important role in its construction. The three novels also implicitly reflect on their own role in this process. In this way, Shelley makes the naturalising logic of the spatial imagination visible, and challenges this logic in the process. Thus, the focus on literary space opens up an interesting perspective from which Shelley's political and aesthetic concerns can be re-examined.

Author: Rebekka Rohleder
ISBN-10: 3825369838
ISBN-13: 9783825369835
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2019
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.90d