The Fraser's Magazine review discerned in this novel a depth and sweep of thought—a knowledge of human kind, in its manifold relations with this earth—and a boldness and directness in penetrating the recesses and displaying...
Literary responses
Mary Shelley
When theoretical critic Barbara Johnson
composed an essay on MS
in 1980 she was choosing, for a symposium on Jacques Derrida
, a relatively unknown topic—yet for the rest of her career she found she...
Literary responses
Anna Brownell Jameson
Recent critics have shown strong interest in ABJ
's representations of gender and racial difference. Leslie Monkman
calls Winter Studies and Summer Ramblesone of pre-confederation Canada's most important works of literary anthropology.
qtd. in
Vargo, Lisa. “An "Enlargement of Home: Anna Jameson and the Representation of Nationalism”. Victorian Review, Vol.
24
, No. 1, 1 June 1998–2026, pp. 53-68.
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Textual Features
Mary Shelley
This novel has an epigraph from John Ford
's The Lover's Melancholy, 1629, about the storms and turmoil of human life.
Vargo, Lisa. “States of the Production of the unknown magnetic pole: John Barrow, The Quarterly Review, and Eleanor Pordens The Arctic ExpeditionsStates of the Book. CSECS/SCEDHS Annual Conference.