Search results for “Mary Shelley”

When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

The book explores and introduces the world of Science Fiction (SF) by women writers, particularly Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butle...

During the last few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience—with their sharp, feminine percept...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the greatest English Romantic poets, and is regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, and o...

The new series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition of the emerging voice of...

A defence of poetry and other essays contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Shelley's argume...

First published in 1912 by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, the book presents studies by Sarah Julie Mary Suddard on the works of Keats,...

Brief, manageable and affordable, the books in the 'Contexts' series fill the gap in students' knowledge of the historical facts, literary associat...

One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seri...

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. Midgley...

Beginning with a comprehensive survey of feminism’s most important themes and concerns and providing a critical evaluation of the various aspects o...

“A woman is physically, emotionally and psychologically different from man. Let her build a world of her own and let man lend her a hand to do so.”...

The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), is an exquisite portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, where sentimental moralizing, and me...

This volume, the seventh in the series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition ...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This c...

Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a...

Study on the educational thoughts of Mother, 1878-1973, associate of Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950, Indic philosopher.

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vie...

Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, o...

One of the best-known works of Bradley, the present volume consists of lectures delivered during the author’s tenure of the Chair of Poetry (1901-1...

GWF Hegel has long been considered one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the nineteenth century, and his work continues to prov...

Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. He is best known for his philosophical novels set i...