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Valperga - or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Valperga - or the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Women Writers in English 1350-1850
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Valperga, published in 1823 and reprinted here for the first time,
was Mary Shelley's second novel, the successor to Frankenstein. Set
in fourteenth-century Tuscany, the novel shares certain structural
features with the popular fictions of Sir Walter Scott, most
notably the novel Ivanhoe with its contrasting heroines, but Mary
Shelley's work pointedly challenges Scott's model, inverting his
masculinist and conservative outlook, foregrounding the lives of
its principal women, Euthanasia dei Adimari and Beatrice of
Ferrara, and attaching to the figure of Castruccio Castracani,
Prince of Lucca, a retrograde authoritarianism and sterile lust for
power. Valperga, steeped in Mary Shelley's command of local Italian
history and culture, offers the vivid pleasures of accomplished
historical fiction, while at the same time representing in the
clash between Castruccio and Euthanasia a struggle between
autocracy and liberal democracy that speaks directly to the
contemporary political tensions of post-Napoleonic Europe. Timed
for Mary Shelley's bicentennial and superbly introduced by Stuart
Curran, this exciting new edition makes available a bold yet
little-known work by one of the finest minds in English letters.
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