Frankenstein and His Women: Five Englishwomen in Search of Happiness
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Frankenstein and His Women: Five Englishwomen in Search of Happiness
14.99 €
The personalities and stories of poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Byron are shrouded in many myths. Even during the life of writers, their figures were accompanied by secrets, outrage and provocation: unusual appearances, scandalous works, god-fighting pathos - and views on the relationship between a man and a woman unacceptable even for freedom-loving Europe of the early XIX century.
There was a period in the life of the two great poets when they were closely connected by friendly, creative and almost family ties. In the late 1810s and early 1820s, English romantics Percy Shelley, George Byron and Mary Shelley formed a tight circle. There were other women in this society. It is to them – both well-known and unnamed companions of great writers – that the new book of art historian, candidate of philological sciences Nina Agisheva is devoted.
The focus is on five female destinies: Mary Shelley and Claire Claremont, as well as Mary’s mother Mary Wollstonecraft, her half-sister Fanny Imley and Percy Shelley’s first wife Harriet Westbrook-Shelley. Trying to hear real voices and weave them into an artistic narrative, Nina Agisheva tells the same story from five different points of view, revealing the complexity and contradictions of human nature.
The book uses the original diaries of Claire Claremont, first translated by the author into Russian, as well as excerpts from letters and other documents relating to that era.
There was a period in the life of the two great poets when they were closely connected by friendly, creative and almost family ties. In the late 1810s and early 1820s, English romantics Percy Shelley, George Byron and Mary Shelley formed a tight circle. There were other women in this society. It is to them – both well-known and unnamed companions of great writers – that the new book of art historian, candidate of philological sciences Nina Agisheva is devoted.
The focus is on five female destinies: Mary Shelley and Claire Claremont, as well as Mary’s mother Mary Wollstonecraft, her half-sister Fanny Imley and Percy Shelley’s first wife Harriet Westbrook-Shelley. Trying to hear real voices and weave them into an artistic narrative, Nina Agisheva tells the same story from five different points of view, revealing the complexity and contradictions of human nature.
The book uses the original diaries of Claire Claremont, first translated by the author into Russian, as well as excerpts from letters and other documents relating to that era.
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