Recent Publication - A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (2023)

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Non-Fiction Title: A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Publisher site: https://ifwgpublishing.com/non-fiction-title-a-vindication-of-monsters-essays-on-mary-wollstonecraft-and-mary-shelley/.

In 1797 an extraordinary visionary died, leaving behind a grieving husband, a two-year-old daughter, and a newborn. The woman was Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Fanny Imlay, and her baby Mary Godwin, who, through many trials and tribulations, grew up to become the remarkable Mary Shelley, creator of one of the most important books in literature: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus.

While many books have examined both women’s lives, their remarkable similarities, their passions, joys, and their grief, A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, delves deeper into the stories behind both women, their connections to historical events, society, their philosophies, and their political contributions to their time. These essays and memoirs explore Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Shelley’s circle of friends, including her husband, the capricious poet Percy Shelley; the libertine Romantic Lord Byron; the first modern vampire author John Polidori; and other contemporary creatives who continue to be inspired by both women today.

Contents:

Preface by Sara Karloff, actress and Boris Karloff’s daughter
Introduction (‘Examining Frankenstein’) by Leslie S. Klinger (editor of the highly-acclaimed New Annotated Frankenstein)
Foreword by Lisa Morton, six-time Bram Stoker Award® winner
‘In His Eyes Our Own Yearning: Seeing Mary Shelley and Her Creature’ by Nancy Holder
‘The Maker Remade: Mary Shelley In Fiction’ by Matthew R Davis
‘Beauty And The Grotesque’ by Michele Brittany
‘Mary Shelley And The World Of Monsters’ by Rob Hood
‘An Articulation Of Beauty In The Film ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein’’ by Donald Prentice Jr
‘Mapping The Collective Body Of Frankenstein’s Brides’ by Carina Bissett
‘Marys And Motherhood’ and Preamble by Claire Fitzpatrick
‘Don’t Feed The Monsters’ by Hk Stubbs
‘My Mother Hands Me A Book’ by Piper Mejia
‘A Bold Question: Consent And The Experimental Subject In Frankenstein’ by Octavia Cade
‘Mary Shelley And Percy Shelley’s Fascination With The Creation Myth And Sexual Androgyny’ by Ciarán Bruder
‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein And Revenge Killers’ by Anthony P Fergusson
‘Medicine And Mary Shelley’ by Grant Butler
‘Frankenstein’s Language Model’ by Jason Franks
‘Mary Shelley: Pandemics, Isolation, And Writing’ by Lee Murray
‘Mary W And Mary S: A Story With Objects’ by Lucy Sussex

A comprehensive essay on the motivations and content of this book by the editor, Claire Fitzpatrick (in Ginger Nuts of Horror).

A Vindication of Monsters: Essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley

Edited by Claire Fitzpatrick
Non-Fiction
English language
ISBN: 978-1-922856-40-1 (print)
978-1-922856-41-8 (ebook)
RRP: US$16.99 (US$6.99 ebook)
Publisher: IFWG Publishing International
252 pages – paperback, English
Binding: Perfect bound
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm
eBook and Print Formats: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iBook
Key Words: Non-fiction; Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Shelley; essays; gothic literature; horror; literature;
Publication Date: 15 October 2023 (global release)
Distributor: World-wide through IPG (IPG specific in North America, NewSouth Books (partner) in Australia/New Zealand, and UID(Marsden/Eurospan) in UK/Europe)

CFP Mary Shelley Today: *Frankenstein* in the Twenty-First Century (2/1/2025)

Mary Shelley Today: *Frankenstein* in the Twenty-First Century

deadline for submissions:
February 1, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Timothy Ruppert and Danette DiMarco

contact email:
timothy.ruppert@sru.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/26/mary-shelley-today-frankenstein-in-the-twenty-first-century

Mary Shelley Today: Frankenstein in the Twenty-First Century seeks to reevaluate the influence of Mary Shelley, and particularly her most prominent novel, on literature and imaginative work of the last quarter century (defined as 1999-2024). This project engages with works and authors on whom little has been written to date in the hope of providing exciting new resources for Romanticists and general readers alike.

We seek contributions between 4,500-6,500 words. While we do not wish to delimit authors in terms of focus, we will give special preference to scholarship on undertreated works and writers, for example, Seanan McGuire’s Down Among the Sticks and Bones (2017), Theodora Goss’s The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (2017), Kiersten White’s The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein (2018), John Kessel’s Pride and Prometheus (2018), Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (trans. 2018), and Jennifer McMahon’s The Children on the Hill (2022). We are also interested in reinterpretations of Frankenstein in other genres, including works such as the Japanese manga series Fullmetal Alchemist,cinematic products such as Larry Fessenden’s 2019 Depraved or the Doctor Who episode ‘The Haunting of Villa Diodati’ (2020), or stage plays such as Eric Sirota’s musical adaptation of Frankenstein (2017). Please note that we already have a chapter concerning Peter Lovesey’s 1999 novel, The Vault, and so will not accept submissions exclusively concerning that work.

Please submit a 500/1,000-word proposal along with your contact information and a biographical note (up to 200 words) to both co-editors by 1 February 2025. Further details on style and formatting will be provided to prospective contributors upon acceptance.

Accepted contributors should plan to submit complete book chapters (4,500/6,500 words, including references and footnotes) by 1 August 2025.

This volume is already under contract to a leading academic publisher, so the manuscript will likely go for peer review in late 2025. The projected publication date is 2026. Please contact both Danette DiMarco (danette.dimarco@sru.edu) and Timothy Ruppert (timothy.ruppert@sru.edu) with any questions.



Last updated January 2, 2025