With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley, The Godolphin and
Latymer School, formerly of Royal Holloway, University of London. The
Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human
civilisation. Set in the late twenty-first century, the novel unfolds a
sombre and pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable
destruction.
Interwoven with her futuristic theme, Mary Shelley
incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley and Byron, yet rejects
Romanticism and its faith in art and nature. Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author
of Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and the radical philosopher
William Godwin. Her mother died ten days after her birth and the young
child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle
and her own reading.
The Last Man - Mary Shelley
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