A life with Mary Shelley / Barbara Johnson ; with a foreword by Cathy Caruth ; introduction by Mary...
A life with Mary Shelley / Barbara Johnson ; with a foreword by Cathy Caruth ; introduction by Mary...
A life with Mary Shelley / Barbara Johnson ; with a foreword by Cathy Caruth ; introduction by Mary Wilson Carpenter ; and essays by Judith Butler and Shoshana Felman.
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Publisher
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
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G 2015/1365
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Language
English
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Physical content
xxv, 198 pages ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
"The last man" (1980) -- "My monster/my self" (1982) -- "Gender theory and the Yale school" (1984) -- Afterword : Animating autobiography : Barbara Johnson and Mary Shelley's monster / Judith Butler -- "Mary Shelley and her circle" (2009) -- Afterword : Barbara Johnson's last book / Shoshana Felman.
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Publisher
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
California
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
"In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida. The essay marked the beginning of Johnson's lifelong interest in Shelley as well as her first foray into the field of 'women's studies,' one of whose commitments was the rediscovery and an...
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A life with Mary Shelley / Barbara Johnson ; with a foreword by Cathy Caruth ; introduction by Mary Wilson Carpenter ; and essays by Judith Butler and Shoshana Felman.
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Meridian, crossing aesthetics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Text in English.
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G 2015/1365
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74VKO4NrrP4b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO4NrrP4b
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ISBN
0804791252 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804790529 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804790523 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804791250 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
823.7
MMS ID
991022623239702626
