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Mary Shelley verblijft op haar veertiende bij een familie in Schotland, waar een innige vriendschap ontstaat met Isabella Baxter. Samen dwalen ze in het gebied dat al eeuwen verhalen herbergt over monsters en geesten, en op een dag stuiten ze diep in het bos op een man die geen man is. De ledematen log en lelijk, een hoofd dat noch menselijk, noch dierlijk is. Vier jaar later brengt Mary met haar geliefde Percy Shelley een bezoek aan haar vrienden John Polidori en Lord Byron, bij het Meer van Genève. ?s Avonds bij het haardvuur vertellen ze elkaar verhalen. Een flintertje herinnering brengt haar terug naar haar tijd met Isabella in Schotland, en ook naar David Booth, een zeer intelligente, charismatische, maar tegelijk ook griezelige man, die een grote interesse in Mary en Isabella ontwikkelde. Dan dient ook het monster uit het bos zich weer aan, en vanuit die gedachte ontstaat haar verhaal over het monster van Frankenstein.Mary is een ode aan de verbeelding, een verhaal over creëren, over de onlosmakelijke band tussen fantasie en werkelijkheid. En evenals Mary Shelley toont Anne Eekhout de kracht van een vrouw wanneer die iets ter wereld brengt wat niemand voor mogelijk had gehouden.https://www.debezigebij.nl/boek/mary/

Dutch literature --- Historische roman --- Fantasie --- Werkelijkheid --- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft --- Schotland --- Monster --- Shelley, Percy Byssche --- Lord Byron --- Frankenstein (roman) --- Romans

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A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft’s thought is possible only through a more comprehensive appreciation of Wollstonecraft herself, as a philosopher and moralist who deftly tackled major social and political issues and the arguments of such figures as Edmund Burke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Adam Smith. Reading Wollstonecraft through the lens of the politics and culture of her own time, this book restores her to her rightful place as a major eighteenth-century thinker, reminding us why her work still resonates today.The book’s format echoes one that Wollstonecraft favored in Thoughts on the Education of Daughters: short essays paired with concise headings. Under titles such as “Painting,” “Music,” “Memory,” “Property and Appearance,” and “Rank and Luxury,” Tomaselli explores not only what Wollstonecraft enjoyed and valued, but also her views on society, knowledge and the mind, human nature, and the problem of evil—and how a society based on mutual respect could fight it. The resulting picture of Wollstonecraft reveals her as a particularly engaging author and an eloquent participant in enduring social and political concerns.Drawing us into Wollstonecraft’s approach to the human condition and the debates of her day, Wollstonecraft ultimately invites us to consider timeless issues with her, so that we can become better attuned to the world as she saw it then, and as we might wish to see it now.

Wollstonecraft, Mary, --- Wollstonecraft, Mary, --- Wollstonecraft, Mary, --- Political and social views. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Vindication of the rights of woman (Wollstonecraft, Mary) --- Adam Smith. --- Alan Coffee. --- Barbara Taylor. --- Edmund Burke. --- Eileen Hunt Botting. --- Mary Shelley. --- Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. --- Mary Wollstonecraft in Context. --- Nancy E. Johnson. --- Paul Keen. --- Rousseau. --- Sandrine Berges. --- The Wollstonecraftian Mind. --- Thomas Paine. --- a new idea of woman. --- association of ideas. --- declaration of the rights of women. --- evil and perfection. --- frankenstein. --- history of civilization. --- human nature. --- idleness. --- inequality. --- love and friendship. --- mind, body, soul. --- moral thought. --- music. --- nature. --- painting. --- parenting. --- passions, appetites, emotions. --- physical exercise. --- poetry. --- political thought. --- progress of civilization. --- property and appearance. --- rank and womanhood. --- reading. --- respect. --- sensory experience. --- slavery. --- the beautiful. --- the condition of women. --- the imagination. --- the mind. --- the sublime. --- theatre. --- thoughts on the education of daughters. --- unity of humanity. --- vanity.

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A reexamination of Austen’s unpublished writings that uncovers their continuity with her celebrated novels—and that challenges distinctions between the writer’s “early” and “late” periodsJane Austen’s six novels, published toward the end of her short life, represent a body of work that is as brilliant as it is compact. Her earlier writings have routinely been dismissed as mere juvenilia, or stepping stones to mature proficiency and greatness. Austen’s first biographer described them as “childish effusions.” Was he right to do so? Can the novels be definitively separated from the unpublished works? In Jane Austen, Early and Late, Freya Johnston argues that they cannot.Examining the three manuscript volumes in which Austen collected her earliest writings, Johnston finds that Austen’s regard and affection for them are revealed by her continuing to revisit and revise them throughout her adult life. The teenage works share the milieu and the humour of the novels, while revealing more clearly the sources and influences upon which Austen drew. Johnston upends the conventional narrative according to which Austen discarded the satire and fantasy of her first writings in favour of the irony and realism of the novels. By demonstrating a stylistic and thematic continuity across the full range of Austen’s work, Johnston asks whether it makes sense to speak of an early and a late Austen at all.Jane Austen, Early and Late offers a new picture of the author in all her complexity and ambiguity, and shows us that it is not necessarily true that early work yields to later, better things.--

Austen, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Amendment. --- Anna Maria Porter. --- Anne Elliot. --- Author. --- Book. --- Bree (Middle-earth). --- Cassandra Austen. --- Catholic Church. --- Charlotte Lennox. --- Claire Tomalin. --- Clarissa. --- Claudia L. Johnson. --- Correction (novel). --- Debut novel. --- Diary. --- E. M. Forster. --- Early Period. --- Edition (book). --- Elinor Dashwood. --- Eliza de Feuillide. --- Elizabeth Bennet. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- Emma (novel). --- Emma Woodhouse. --- Emmeline. --- Epigraph (literature). --- Epistle. --- Essay. --- Evelina. --- Fairy tale. --- Fanny Hill. --- Fanny Price. --- Felicia Hemans. --- Fiction. --- Fictional universe. --- First Story. --- Frances Burney. --- G. K. Chesterton. --- Hannah More. --- Hester Thrale. --- Historical romance. --- Inception. --- Intention. --- J. M. Barrie. --- Jane Austen. --- Janet Todd. --- John Cleland. --- Jude the Obscure. --- Juvenilia. --- Lady Susan. --- Life and Letters. --- Literary genre. --- Literary modernism. --- Mansfield Park. --- Manuscript. --- Margaret Tudor. --- Maria Edgeworth. --- Marianne Dashwood. --- Marriage plot. --- Martha Lloyd. --- Mary Brunton. --- Mary Crawford (Mansfield Park). --- Mary Musgrove. --- Mary Russell Mitford. --- Mary Wollstonecraft. --- Memoir. --- Middle age. --- Miss Bates. --- Mrs. --- N. (novella). --- North America. --- Northanger Abbey. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Parody. --- Persuasion (novel). --- Poetry. --- Point of Origin (novel). --- Prediction. --- Preface. --- Publication. --- Regency novel. --- Routledge. --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. --- Sanditon. --- Sense and Sensibility. --- Sentimental novel. --- Sequel. --- Sir Francis Drake (TV series). --- Susan Gubar. --- The Beautifull Cassandra. --- The Female Quixote. --- The History of England (Austen). --- The History of England (Hume). --- The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel). --- The Years. --- Waverley Novels. --- William Hone. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- England --- -Social life and customs --- Social life and customs