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Overview

This apocalyptic tale by the author of Frankenstein envisions a future world devastated by plague. Misunderstood by contemporary readers, Mary Shelley's 1826 precursor to the science fiction novel has reemerged to critical acclaim. Its quasibiographical portraits of the author's Romantic-era cohorts, including Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, are of particular interest.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
Set in an apocalyptic future ending in the year 2100, Shelley's 1826 novel concerns a plague that destroys almost all of humankind. (June)
Library Journal
Thanks to yet another film incarnation, 1818's Frankenstein is again a hot property and may even make the best sellers lists. These two editions mark both ends of the publishing spectrum, with Signet offering the inexpensive movie tie-in version complete with photos from the film and an afterword by Howard Bloom. The California version is the Pennroyal edition, featuring gorgeous illustrations by Barry Moser and an afterword by Joyce Carol Oates. Published in 1826 after the death of her husband and three children, The Last Man is Shelley's dark look at an apocalyptic future.
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Muriel Spark

“The Last Man created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work.”

Studies in English Literature

“A fascinating . . . novel-romance on a timely subject.”

The Year's Work in English Studies

“An absorbing roman à clef, [it] develops one of the major themes of romantic art, that of spiritual isolation, and . . . treats it in a unique way.”

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780486471228
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Publication date: 3/18/2010
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 188,319
  • Lexile: 1210L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Anne McWhir is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Calgary, and a specialist in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: A Brief Chronology

A Note on the Text

The Last Man

Introduction

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Map of Lionel Verney’s World

Appendix A: Some Contemporaries of the Last Man

1. George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Darkness” (1816)

2. Thomas Campbell, “The Last Man” (1823)

3. Thomas Campbell, letter in The Times, 24 March 1825

4. Thomas Hood, from “The Last Man” (1826)

5. George Dibdin Pitt, from The Last Man; or; The Miser of Eltham Green (1833)

6. Thomas Love Beddoes, notes for a projected play, The Last Man

Appendix B: The Sibyl’s Cave

1. Virgil, from Aeneid 6

2. Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville, from The Last Man; or Omegarus and Syderia, A Romance in Futurity (1806)

Appendix C: Versions of Plague

1. Edward Gibbon, from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88)

2. Daniel Defoe, from A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)

3. Charles Brockden Brown, from Arthur Mervyn (1799-1800)

4. John Wilson, from The City of the Plague (1816)

5. From “Contagion and Sanitary Laws,” Westminster Review 3 (1825): 134-67

Appendix D: “The Web of Mind”

1. Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney, from The Ruins (1791)

2. William Godwin, from Political Justice (1793)

3. Thomas Robert Malthus, from An Essay on Population (1798)

4. Mary Wollstonecraft, from The French Revolution (1794)

5. Edmund Burke, from A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)

6. Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Notes to Queen Mab (1813)

7. Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Preface to The Revolt of Islam (1818)

8. William Godwin, from Essay on Sepulchres (1809)

Appendix E: Mary Shelley’s poems

1. “The Choice”

2. “On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peel Castle”

3. “To Jane— (with the ‘Last Man’)”

Appendix F: Contemporary Comments on and Reviews of The Last Man

1. From The Literary Magnet of Monthly Journal of the Belles Lettres, ns 1 (January 1826): 56

2. From The Literary Gazette, and Journal of the Belles Letters, 474 ( Saturday 18 Feb. 1826): 56

3. From Monthly Review 1 (1826): 333-35

4. From Blackwood’s 21 (January 1827): 54

Appendix G: Postscript

From Mary Shelley, Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844)

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