LodoreBeset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife’s, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile, has remained with her controlling mother in England. When he finally brings himself to attempt a return, Lodore is killed en route in a duel. Ethel does return to England, and the rest of the book tells the story of her marriage to the troubled and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by through a variety of tribulations) and her long journey to a reconciliation with her mother. Lodore’s scope of character and of idea is matched by its narrative range and variety of setting; the novel’s highly dramatic story-line moves at different points to Italy, to Illinois, and to Niagara Falls. And in this edition, which includes a wealth of documents from the period, the reader is provided with a sense of the full context out of which Shelley’s achievement emerged. |
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... first mention occurs in a letter rife with talk about hard times for writers and publishers ( Letters 2.125 and n ) . As William Walling notes , the novel was begun early in 1832 , and finished the next year ( 105 ) . Shelley sent the first ...
... first meet the eye of post - 1835 readers . Above all , it needs to be asked how the novel might be read if it were seen in terms of engagement rather than retreat from political and ideological issues . 4. The Case for Lodore If Lodore ...
... first wife Harriet in 1811 and marvelled at the “ grandeur of its imagery ” ( White 1.175 ) . The mood of Miltonic awe that the falls inspired is meant to be evocative of the Byronic character of Fitzhenry . Walling's scorn that ...
... first - rate work of art , than will the most exquisite representation of mountains , water , wood , and glorious clouds , form a good painting , if none of the rules of grouping or colouring are followed ” ( see Appendix A ) ...
... first — afterwards makes sacrifises not less entire , for her child — finding all to be Vanity , except the genuine affections of the heart . In the daughter I have tried to pourtray in its simplicity , & all the beauty I could muster ...
Contents
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Mary ShelleyWoman of Letters | 449 |
Some Literary Contexts | 472 |
Illinois and Duelling | 483 |
William Godwin from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice Third Edition | 493 |
Domesticity and Womens Education | 500 |
Contemporary Reviews of Lodore | 531 |
From The Literary Gazette | 543 |
Select Bibliography | 550 |