2007, ISBN: 9781582433394

Berkeley, Counterpoint, XVIII, 297 S. / p., Abb. Originalpappband mit Originalschutzumschlag / Hardcover with dustjacket. Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - When notorious feminis… Mehr…

Berkeley, Counterpoint, XVIII, 297 S. / p., Abb. Originalpappband mit Originalschutzumschlag / Hardcover with dustjacket. Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - When notorious feminist and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft died bearing the future Mary Shelley, she left her first daughter Fanny alone in the world. Reared in the home of William Godwin with Mary and their stepsister Claire, Fanny lived in the shadow of others. When the rich, young poet and idealistic thinker Percy Bysshe Shelley came to stay with the Godwin family, Mary, Claire, and Fanny were mesmerized. So the fate of these maidens was sealed. -- In 1816, Shelley, Mary, and Claire went to Switzerland to meet up with Lord Byron. There, in a sexual and creative ménage a quatre, Byron and Shelley wrote some of the greatest poetry in the English language and Mary conceived the novel Frankenstein. But Shelley?s ideal of free love had a devastating human cost: on their return they were confronted by the suicides of Shelley?s deserted wife Harriet, and of Fanny. Abandoned by Mary and left grieving in London, Fanny had written desperate letters that went ignored. When she died at the age of twenty-two, nobody came forward to claim her body. -- While Percy Bysshe Shelley is remembered as a martyr to art, the tragedy of the young women who were close to him is largely overlooked. Fanny, the most poignant victim of English Literature, is finally brought back to life in this tale of love, death, and literary genius. ISBN 9781582433394Literaturwissenschaft 2007<