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Valperga, or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca / Mary Shelley ; edited by Tillotama Rajan.
- Title
- Valperga, or, The life and adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca / Mary Shelley ; edited by Tillotama Rajan.
- Author
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
- Publication
- Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR5397 .V3 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Rajan, Tilottama
- Description
- 492 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Originally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley's most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it represents a merging of historical romance and the literature of sentiment. Incorporating intriguing feminist elements, this absorbing novel shows Shelley as a complex and intellectually astute thinker.
- Series Statement
- Broadview literary texts
- Uniform Title
- Broadview literary texts
- Alternative Title
- Life and adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca
- Valperga
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-492) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Mary Shelley: A Brief Chronology -- Chronology of Historical Events Relevant to Valperga -- A Note on the Text and Acknowledgements -- Valperga -- Appendix A: from Godwin's "Of History and Romance" -- Appendix B: from Machiavelli's Life of Castruccio -- Appendix C: Extract from Draft Manuscript -- Appendix D: from Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics of the Middle Ages, II: 110-12 (translation Rajan) -- Appendix E: Reviews of Valperga -- 1. From The Ladies' Monthly Museum 17 (April, 1823) -- 2. From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine 13 (1823) -- 3. From The Examiner 788 (March 2, 1823) -- 4. From The Literary Gazette, and Journal of the Belles Lettres 319 (March 1, 1823) -- 5. From Monthly Review 101 (May, 1823) -- Select Bibliography.
- ISBN
- 1551111446
- LCCN
- cn^98930896^
- OCLC
- 40861891
- SCSB-12206193
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library