Along with our concluding discussion of Mary Shelley's The Last Man, our reading this week included Percy Shelley's poem "Letter to Maria Gisborne." The poem was written while the Shelley's were staying in Italy, at the home of Maria Gisborne and her husband John. Shelley used an his writing room the study/workshop of Henry, Maria's son. Henry was interested in ship-building, which most
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This week in class we are beginning our discussion of Mary Shelley's The Last Man. The Last Man was written eight years after Frankenstein and was published in 1826. The story is set in the future, near the end of the twenty-first century, and tells the story of the extermination of the human race by a plague. I have the Oxford World's Classics edition as shown above, but as I was a little
This week in class we are discussing British War Poetry in the Age of Romanticism (1793-1815). The collection being referenced can be found on the Romantics Circle website, https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/warpoetry/index.html. As described on the website, “Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Website devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and
Today in class we discussed the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, specifically "Song: to the Men of England," "The Masque of Anarchy," and "England in 1819." "England in 1819" is a sonnet, and so I chose it for its brief lines and form to use for experimenting with Juxta Commons. According to their website, "Juxta is a tool that allows you to compare and collate versions of the same textual work."
This week we read Presumption; or the Fate of Frankenstein by Richard Brinsley Peake. Presumption, a play based on Shelley’s Frankenstein, was first performed at the English Opera House on July 28, 1823. The text of the play along with cast photos, reviews, and other relevant information can be found at http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/peake/index.html.
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