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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... feeling . Through these portraits Shelley mounts a critique of her patriarchal culture . But the death of Lodore is the novel's overwhelming tragedy , and Shelley would have her readers reflect on the consequences of the waste of so ...
... feeling , the education of Fitzhenry was lam- entably deficient ” ( Vol . I , Chap . 3 ) . Ethel represents what contemporary English culture idealized in a woman , and Shelley , ever responsive to the literary market , produced what ...
... feeling , and not apathy , that made him shy and retired . Sensibility checked and crushed , an ardent thirst for sympathy which could not be allayed in the wildernesses of America , begot a certain appearance of coldness , altogether ...
... feeling : every thing seems better than that which is ; and solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy , the more dangerous , because it dwells within the citadel itself . Borne down by such emotions , Fitzhenry was often about to yield ...
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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 |