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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... called “ feverish publishing activity ” ( Feltes 30 ) , as the literary text is transformed to a commodity “ produced in struggle by the new ' professional ' author within the new structures of control over the publishing process ...
... - ters . The Examiner called Shelley " a remarkable exception ” to the gen- eral rule that women can't create credible male characters : " There is a force , an individuality , and a subtle investigation of 18 INTRODUCTION.
... called her “ one of the most original of our modern writers . ” Of inter- est to twentieth - century readers is the window the reviews provide on how readers in the 1830s might have responded to the novel . Lit- erary parallels are ...
... called in a letter " Percy's Platonics , ” while Clorinda's death and Horatio's remarriage to the widowed and lonely Cornelia seem to be acts of wish - fulfilment . Sunstein also argues that Shelley is critical of herself and ...
... called Lodore “ Frankenstein without the science ” ( Other Mary Shelley 230 ) , and while this seems somewhat epigrammatic , similarities of theme , setting , and even the choice of characters ' names , do exist . As Anne Mellor notes ...
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 |