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The Last Man
Taschenbuch von Mary Shelley
Sprache: Englisch

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`The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824).Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy after her husband's death.It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates the story, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague. The Last Man also functions as an intriguing roman ¿lef, for the saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait of Byron. The novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem her doomed characters.
`The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824).Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy after her husband's death.It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates the story, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague. The Last Man also functions as an intriguing roman ¿lef, for the saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley, and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait of Byron. The novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem her doomed characters.
Über den Autor
Morton D. Paley is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 479
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199552351
ISBN-10: 0199552355
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shelley, Mary
Redaktion: Paley, Morton D.
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 193 x 127 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Mary Shelley
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2008
Gewicht: 0,36 kg
preigu-id: 101831050
Über den Autor
Morton D. Paley is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 479
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199552351
ISBN-10: 0199552355
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shelley, Mary
Redaktion: Paley, Morton D.
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 193 x 127 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Mary Shelley
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.08.2008
Gewicht: 0,36 kg
preigu-id: 101831050
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