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The last man and The journal of sorrow
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-18512026
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley began writing her 'Journal of Sorrow' (c.1822-6) three months after the devastating loss of her husband the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to drowning. In the privacy of the diary's pages, she grapples with her overwhelming grief over the tragic losses of her young husband, three of their children, and their friend the poet Lord Byron. Shelley ultimately resisted a suicidal depression by throwing herself into writing the allegorical plague novel and roman-a-clef, 'The Last Man' (1826). Rooted in her own experiences of plagues both real and metaphorical, Shelley set 'The Last Man' in the aftermath of a pestilential, centuries-long war between Greece and Turkey in the late twenty-first century.
Main title:
The last man and The journal of sorrow / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; edited by Eileen M. Hunt.
Imprint:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2026.Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2026.
Collation:
592 pages ; 20 cm.
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ISBN:
9780198892793 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
3156373