Eminent Literary and Scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal .. Volume 3

Lives of Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal #3

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, John Taylor, Edward Francis Finden

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350 pages, Hardcover

Published May 7, 2016

About the author

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer in her own lifetime, though reviewers often missed the political edge to her novels. After her death, however, she was chiefly remembered only as the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley and as the author of Frankenstein. It was not until 1989, when Emily Sunstein published her prizewinning biography Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, that a full-length scholarly biography analyzing all of Shelley's letters, journals, and works within their historical context was published.

The well-meaning attempts of Mary Shelley's son and daughter-in-law to "Victorianise" her memory through the censoring of letters and biographical material contributed to a perception of Mary Shelley as a more conventional, less reformist figure than her works suggest. Her own timid omissions from Percy Shelley's works and her quiet avoidance of public controversy in the later years of her life added to this impression.

The eclipse of Mary Shelley's reputation as a novelist and biographer meant that, until the last thirty years, most of her works remained out of print, obstructing a larger view of her achievement. She was seen as a one-novel author, if that. In recent decades, however, the republication of almost all her writings has stimulated a new recognition of its value. Her voracious reading habits and intensive study, revealed in her journals and letters and reflected in her works, is now better appreciated. Shelley's recognition of herself as an author has also been recognized; after Percy's death, she wrote about her authorial ambitions: "I think that I can maintain myself, and there is something inspiriting in the idea". Scholars now consider Mary Shelley to be a major Romantic figure, significant for her literary achievement and her political voice as a woman and a liberal.

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Mosen Jordi
The Cancioneros
AlPHONSO X. AND HIS COURT
AlFHONSO XI. AND HIS COURT
Juan de Mena
Juan de Enzina
BOSCAN
GARCILASO DE LA VEGA
DIEGO HURTADO DE MENDOZA
LUIS DE LEON
HERRERA
Jorge de Montemayor
Castillejo
The Early Dramatists
ERCILLA
CERVANTES
LOPE DE VEGA
VICENTE ESPINEL--ESTEBAN DE VILLEGAS
GONGORA
QUEVEDO
CALDERON
EARLY POETS OF PORTUGAL
Ribeyra
Saa de Miranda
Gil Vicente
Ferreira
CAMOENS
TABLES,
ANALYTICAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL,
TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF
LIVES OF
EMINENT LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEN
OF ITALY, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL.
VOL. I, II and III

In every other country, to treat of its literary men is
at the same time to give a history of its literature. In
Spain it is otherwise.