English 9230
Mary and Percy Shelley: Collaboration, Conversation, and Creativity
Instructor: Professor Monika Lee.
Fall Half Course.
This course will examine a productive literary partnership through a close examination of their writings. Their texts will be read in conversation with one another and in relation to historical influence, intertextuality, presence, collaboration, difference, and theories of creativity. We’ll consider Friedrich Schelling on identity, Baruch Spinoza on love, Julia Kristeva on intertextuality, Mikhail Bakhtin on dialogism, and Helene Cixous on women’s writing as theoretical contexts in which to discuss Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Valperga, The Last Man, and short stories, and Percy B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Epipsychidion, and other lyrics.
