The Last Man by Mary Shelley

The Last Man by Mary Shelley

“This is an invaluable edition of The Last Man, a novel that tackles concerns of supreme urgency in our time. This book offers an introduction, contemporary texts, and critical readings that reframe the novel for our moment, enabling readers to find in this story of the end of our familiar world a seemingly impossible hope for another, less oppressive world to come.” —David Collings, Bowdoin College

“Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, in many ways as prescient as Shelley’s first novel and one of the first great works of dystopian fiction, has warranted a Norton edition for some time. In Washington’s hands we finally have it. Thoroughly annotated and scrupulously situating Shelley’s third novel within its both historical and contemporary cultural and critical contexts, this fine edition sets a high bar for the future study of Shelley’s writing. Washington has given us an invaluable resource and guide for academic readers, from undergraduates to senior scholars, but also an excellent primer for nonacademic audiences.” —Joel Faflak, Western University, Canada

Chris Washington is an assistant professor of English at Francis Marion University. He specializes in British Romantic literature, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry and poetics, and literary theory. His articles have appeared in European Review, Essays in Romanticism, Literature Compass, and Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons. With Anne McCarthy he is the coeditor of Romanticism and Speculative Realism, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press.

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ISBN 13	9780393887822
ISBN 10	0393887820
Title	The Last Man
Author	Mary Shelley
Series	Norton Critical Editions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2023-03-24
Number of pages	596
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.