玛丽·雪莱：末后一个男人 (诺顿文学解读系列) Norton Critical Editions: The Last Man

基本信息

Series:Norton Critical Editions

Format:Paperback / softback 596 pages

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Imprint:WW Norton & Co

ISBN:9780393887822

Published:24 Mar 2023

Weight:510g

Dimensions:128 x 213 x 39 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

这是《The Last Man》的无价版本，这部小说解决了我们这个时代紧迫的问题。 本书提供了序言、当代文本和批判性读物，为我们的时代重新构建了这部小说，使读者能够在这个我们熟悉的世界终结的故事中找到一个看似不可能的希望，即另一个不那么压抑的世界即将到来。

此诺顿批判版包括：

该小说 1826 年亨利·科尔伯恩版本，经玛丽·雪莱批准。

克里斯·华盛顿 (Chris Washington) 的介绍和解释性脚注。

内容丰富的上下文文件（总共 26 份）涉及《The Last Man》的背景和来源、接受和影响、雪莱的其他相关作品以及其他文本。

针对小说主要主题的十四个精心挑选的批判性评估。

玛丽·雪莱的生活和工作年表以及精选参考书目

This is an invaluable edition of The Last Man, a novel that tackles concerns of supreme urgency in our time. This book offers an introduction, contemporary texts, and critical readings that reframe the novel for our moment, enabling readers to find in this story of the end of our familiar world a seemingly impossible hope for another, less oppressive world to come.

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the approved by Mary Shelley.

Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington.

A rich selection of contextual documents―twenty-six in all―pertaining to The Last Man’s background and sources, reception and impact, other related works by Shelley, and other “Last Man” texts.

Fourteen carefully chosen critical assessments on the novel’s major themes.

A chronology of Mary Shelley’s life and work and a selected bibliography

作者简介

玛丽·雪莱是一位英国小说家、短篇小说作家、戏剧家、散文家、传记作家和旅行作家，以其哥特式小说《弗兰肯斯坦：或现代普罗米修斯》（1818 年）而闻名。 她还编辑和推广了她的丈夫、浪漫主义诗人和哲学家珀西·比希·雪莱的作品。 她的父亲是政治哲学家威廉·戈德温，母亲是哲学家和女权主义者玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特。

克里斯·华盛顿是弗朗西斯·马里恩大学英语助理教授。 他专攻英国浪漫主义文学、十八世纪和十九世纪诗歌和诗学以及文学理论。 他的文章发表在《欧洲评论》、《浪漫主义论文》、《文学指南针》和《浪漫圈教育学共享》上。 他与安妮·麦卡锡共同编辑了布鲁姆斯伯里出版社即将出版的《浪漫主义与思辨现实主义》一书。

Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Chris Washington is an assistant professor of English at Francis Marion University. He specializes in British Romantic literature, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry and poetics, and literary theory. His articles have appeared in European Review, Essays in Romanticism, Literature Compass, and Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons. With Anne McCarthy he is the coeditor of Romanticism and Speculative Realism, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press.