Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley After Frankenstein: Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley's Birth

The essays in this book discuss Mary Shelley's innovative contributions to the literary forms she worked with during her lifelong career after the publication of Frankenstein: journals, letters, travelogues, biographies, editions, poems, dramas, tales, and novels. The image of Shelley that emerges is of one who is talented, intelligent, dedicated to her craft, and a nonconformist in idea and forms.