Shelley Unbound

by de Hart, Scott Douglas; Farrell, Joseph P.

• ISBN13: 9781936239603
• ISBN10: 1936239604
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-06
• Publisher: Feral House

Summary

Frankensteinwas first released in 1818 anonymously. The credit for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's authorship first occurred in 1823 when a French edition was published. A year earlier, Mary's revolutionary husband, the influential poet, dramatist, novelist, and essayist Percy Bysshe Shelley, died. The same year Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus(its full title) was first published, so was another work by Mary's husband that shares use of the word Prometheus. The drama Prometheus Unboundwas indeed credited to Percy Shelley. The secret admission of many experts in English literature is that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley did not write a good portion of Frankenstein. In Shelley Unbound, Oxford scholar Scott D. deHart examines the critical information about Percy Shelley's scientific avocations, his disputes against church and state, and his connection to the illegal and infamous anti-Catholic organization, the Illuminati. Scott D. deHart's fascinating investigation into Frankensteinand the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Shelley results in an inconvenient truth regarding what we have long believed to be a great early example of the feminist canon. Scott D. deHartwas born and raised in Southern California. He graduated from Oxford University with a PhD specializing in nineteenth-century English literature and legal controversies.