Lodore

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Broadview Press, 1997 M01 31 - 555 pages

Beset by jealousy over an admirer of his wife’s, Lord Lodore has come with his daughter Ethel to the American wilderness; his wife Cornelia, meanwhile, has remained with her controlling mother in England. When he finally brings himself to attempt a return, Lodore is killed en route in a duel. Ethel does return to England, and the rest of the book tells the story of her marriage to the troubled and impoverished Villiers (whom she stands by through a variety of tribulations) and her long journey to a reconciliation with her mother.

Lodore’s scope of character and of idea is matched by its narrative range and variety of setting; the novel’s highly dramatic story-line moves at different points to Italy, to Illinois, and to Niagara Falls. And in this edition, which includes a wealth of documents from the period, the reader is provided with a sense of the full context out of which Shelley’s achievement emerged.

 

Contents

Preface
7
A Note on the Text
41
Lodore
47
Mary ShelleyWoman of Letters
449
Some Literary Contexts
472
Illinois and Duelling
483
Domesticity and Womens Education
500
Contemporary Reviews of Lodore
531
Select Bibliography
550
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Lisa Vargo educated at Mount Holyoke College and the University of Toronto, is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan.

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