Some previously unrecognised references to classical historians in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s The last man
‘We are all Greeks,’ writes Percy Bysshe Shelley (PBS) in the preface to ‘Hellas.’ Given the systematic attempts by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (MWS) to exorcise the post-mortem influence of her husband, we should not be surprised to find that this claim, too, is interrogated in her fiction. Through...
Main Author: | Carney, J |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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