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T1 Exploring Nature in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and The Last Man
A1 González Rodríguez, Julia
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Nature
K1 Mary Shelley
K1 Frankenstein
K1 The Last Man
K1 Romanticism
K1 Naturaleza
K1 El último hombre
K1 Romanticismo
AB The romantic period has been often characterized by its particular use of Nature inliterature. This dissertation explores how Nature was employed as a multifunctionalrhetorical device to express a variety of ideas and thoughts. To illustrate this, an analysisof the use of Nature in two of Mary Shelley’s acclaimed novels, Frankenstein(1818,1831) and The Last Man (1826), is carried out. The use of the most prominentnatural elements found in the two novels reveal that Nature actually possesses a rhetoricalfunctionality in the shaping of meaning and ideas relevant to the author’s narrativepurposes. At the same time, some variations between the novels are observable that showan evolution not only of the Gothic tradition but also of key tenets from gender andecocritical perspectives.
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33613
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33613
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024