Mary Shelley's Italian scenes

Mercer, Anna 2020. Mary Shelley's Italian scenes. Braida, Antonella, ed. Mary Shelley and Europe: Essays in honour of Jean de Palacio, Vol. 55. Studies In Comparative Literature, Modern Humanities Research Association, pp. 90-102. (10.2307/j.ctv1wsgr9h.14)

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Abstract

On 30 March 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley arrived in Italy with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley on their second expedition to the continent.² This country was to become their home — a ‘Paradise of exiles’ (l. 57) as expressed in Percy Shelley’s poem ‘Julian and Maddalo’.³ It was where the couple spent, as described by Michael Rossington, Percy Shelley’s ‘last four, richly productive years’ prior to the poet’s death aged just 29 in 1822.⁴ Jane Stabler has explained that after these four years, ‘Mary Shelley felt that England was no longer home. Political sympathies in Mary’s case, rather than duration...

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Modern Humanities Research Association
ISBN:	978-1781885482
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2023 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/158879

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