
The Works of Mary Robinson, Part I
William D. Brewer(Author)
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2009
Book
1776 pages
978-1-85196-953-1 (ISBN)
Description
Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparisons with Charlotte Smith, make her a serious figure for scholarly research.
Reviews / Votes
'There are few better signs that a writer has reentered the canon than the appearance of a superbly edited collected works from Pickering and Chatto ... these volumes ... are consistently edited to a high standard. Variants and silent corrections are recorded following the notes at the end of each volume, which identify contemporary references and Robinson's literary allusions.' The Wordsworth Circle 'in addition to providing an incisive commentary on Robinson's formal and stylistic practices, the book also offers a thorough assessment of the social circles, publishing networks, and personal affiliations that determined the development of her poetic identity.' The Year's Work in English StudiesMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85196-953-1 (9781851969531)
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Content
Part I Volumes 1 and 2 Editor: Daniel Robinson Poems Robinson's contemporaries dubbed her 'the English Sappho'. An ardent admirer of her poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge declared her 'a woman of undoubted Genius', and he praised the meter of her poem 'The Haunted Beach' in a letter to his fellow poet Robert Southey: 'ay! that Woman has an Ear'. A prolific poet, she wrote Della Cruscan verse under a variety of pseudonyms, political and satirical poems, a long sonnet sequence entitled Sappho and Phaon (1796), and a volume entitled Lyrical Tales (1800) that reflects the influence of Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798). Robinson often reprinted her poems, which appeared in variant forms in newspapers, her novels, and in volumes of poetry. This collection will be the first complete and scholarly edition of Robinson's poetry ever published and will include periodical verse that did not appear in the posthumous 1806 Poetical Works. Editor: Dawn Vernooy-Epp Vancenza; or, the Dangers of Credulity (1792) Set in fifteenth-century Spain, Vancenza is both a cautionary tale about the dangers of female credulity and a Gothic romance. The protagonist, Elvira, is a beautiful and naive orphan of unknown parentage who uses her veil to bandage a wounded Prince. The Prince falls in love with her, and, after a series of misadventures, they become engaged. Before the wedding, however, she discovers a manuscript that reveals that she is the Prince's half-sister. Horrified by the prospect of marrying her own brother, she expires. Written when the Gothic craze was at its height, Vancenza went into five editions by 1794. Robinson revisited the theme of incest in her penultimate novel, The False Friend. The Widow, or a Picture of Modern Times (1794) Robinson's second novel, The Widow, is heavily influenced by Frances Burney's Evelina. Like its predecessor, it is an epistolary social satire, and the sadistic treatment of simple country people by the idle landed gentry in Th