Bibliographic Information
Lodore
Mary Shelley ; edited by Lisa Vargo
(Broadview literary texts)
Broadview Press, c1997
Available at / 4 libraries
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Beset 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.
Table of Contents
- Preface
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Mary Shelley: A Brief Chronology
Lodore
Appendix A: Mary Shelley-Woman of Letters
"The Bride of Modern Italy" (1824)
From Review of The Loves of the Poets (1829)
From Review of Cloudesley
- A Tale (1830)
From "Ugo Foscolo," Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal (1837)
Appendix B: Some Literary Contexts
George Gordon, Lord Byron, from Lara (1814)
The Tempest and Mary Wollstonecraft's The Female Reader (1797)
Thomas Campbell, from Gertrude of Wyoming (1809)
Edward John Trelawny from Adventures of a Younger Son (1831)
Appendix C: Illinois and Duelling
Morris Birkbeck, from Letters from Illinois (1818)
William Cobbett, from A Year's Residence in America (1818-19)
Frances Wright, from Views of Society and Manners in America (1821)
William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, Third Edition (1798)
James Fenimore Cooper, from Notions of the Americans (1828)
Appendix D: Domesticity and Women's Education
Mary Wollstonecraft, from Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787)
Mary Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
William Godwin, from The Enquirer (1797)
Anna Jameson, from Characteristics of Women (1832)
Sarah Stickney Ellis, from The Women of England (1839)
Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews of Lodore
From The Athenaeum
From The Examiner
From Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
From Leigh Hunt's London Journal
From The Literary Gazette
From New Monthly Magazine
From The Sun
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Details
- NCID
- BA47763961
- ISBN
- Country Code
- cn
- Title Language Code
- eng
- Text Language Code
- eng
- Place of Publication
- Psterborough, Ont.
- Pages/Volumes
- 555 p.
- Size
- 22 cm
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