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Title: |
The Last Man |
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| By (author): |
Mary Shelley Edited by: Anne McWhir |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551110768 : 9781551110769 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
425 |
| Weight: |
.589 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - September 1996 |
| List Price: |
32.95 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| Mary Shelleyâ s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelleyâ s treatment of the theme goes beyond the conventional; it is extraordinarily interesting and deeply moving. If The Last Man is in some sense a â conventionalâ text of the period, it is also intensely personal in its origin; Shelley refers in her journal to the last man as her alter ego, â the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.â The novel thus develops out of and contributes to a network of story and idea in which fantasy, allusion, convention, and autobiography are densely interwoven. This new version of the first edition (1826) sets out to provide not only a thoroughly annotated text, but also contextual materials to help the reader acquire knowledge of the intellectual and literary milieu out of which the novel emerged. Appendices include material on â the last manâ as early nineteenth-century hero, texts from the debate initiated by Malthus in 1798 about the adequacy of food supply to sustain human population, various accounts of outbreaks of plague, and Shelleyâ s poems representing her feelings after the death of her husband. |
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