The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-27795-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature

How did Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, two of the most iconic and celebrated authors of the Romantic Period, contribute to each other’s achievements? This book is the first to dedicate a full-length study to exploring the nature of the Shelleys’ literary relationship in depth. It offers new insights into the works of these talented individuals who were bound together by their personal romance and shared commitment to a literary career. Most innovatively, the book describes how Mary Shelley contributed significantly to Percy Shelley’s writing, whilst also discussing Percy’s involvement in her work.

A reappraisal of original manuscripts reveals the Shelleys as a remarkable literary couple, participants in a reciprocal and creative exchange. Hand-written evidence shows Mary adding to Percy’s work in draft and vice-versa. A focus on the Shelleys’ texts – set in the context of their lives and especially their travels – is used to explain how they enabled one another to accomplish a quality of work which they might never have achieved alone. Illustrated with reproductions from their notebooks and drafts, this volume brings Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley to the forefront of emerging scholarship on collaborative literary relationships and the social nature of creativity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mercer, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Author’s Note

List of Images

The Shelleys: A Brief Chronology

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1, 1814-18: London to Europe – collaborative beginnings

Chapter 2, 1818-22: Literary exchanges in Italy

Chapter 3, 1818-22: The Italian period and shared composition

Chapter 4, 1822 and beyond: Approaching posthumous editing as collaboration

Chapter 5, 1822 and beyond: Intertextual connections and Mary Shelley’s later novels

Afterword: ‘We have now lived five years together’

Abbreviations

Works Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Anna Mercer has a PhD in English Literature from the University of York. She has also studied at Jesus College, University of Cambridge and the University of Liverpool. She has published essays in The Keats-Shelley Review and The Coleridge Bulletin, and has also written and edited several blogs on Romanticism (including for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the Keats-Shelley Association of America). She won the runner-up Keats-Shelley Essay Prize in 2015. Anna currently teaches English Literature at Cardiff University and works at Keats House Museum. This is her first monograph.