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Originally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley's most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it represents a merging of historical romance and the literature of sentiment. Incorporating intriguing feminist elements, this absorbing novel shows Shelley as a complex and intellectually astute thinker.
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- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Mary Shelley
- First published
- 1823
- Pages
- 321
- Publisher
- Independently Published, Kessinger Publishing, Woodstock Books
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- English, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781021193513
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“THE other nations of Europe were yet immersed in barbarism, when Italy, where the light of civilization had never been wholly eclipsed, began to emerged from the darkness of the ruin of the Western Empire, and to catch from the East the returning rays of literature and science.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. ([Source][1].) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley
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