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050 00 $aPR5398$b.H5 1995
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100 1 $aHill-Miller, Katherine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82215757
245 10 $aMy hideous progeny :$bMary Shelly, William Godwin, and the father-daughter relationship /$cKatherine C. Hill-Miller.
260 $aNewark :$bUniversity of Delaware Press ;$aLondon :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a249 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-242) and index.
520 $a"My Hideous Progeny" : Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship is a study of the influence of William Godwin on his daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. "My Hideous Progeny" explores Godwin's unsettling psychological legacy - and his generous intellectual gifts - to his daughter. The relationship between Mary Shelley and her father illustrates a typical pattern of female development and a typical course of father-daughter relationships over a lifetime.
520 8 $aMary Shelley's response to her father's influence is unforgettably portrayed in the figure of the father in the pages of her novels.
520 8 $aWilliam Godwin, a radical political philosopher and novelist, brought up the daughter he had with his lover Mary Wollstonecraft to be a thinker and writer. Unusual for the times, he trained her in literature, history, and the powers of the rational mind. Yet as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin grew into womanhood, her once supportive father rejected her. He distanced himself from her physically and emotionally during her adolescence, perhaps because of the incestuous feelings her developing womanhood called up.
520 8 $aAfter Mary Godwin eloped to France at age sixteen with the married, atheistic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Godwin refused to speak with his daughter for almost two years. After Percy Shelley's death by drowning, Godwin changed once again: he relied on Mary Shelley heavily for emotional comfort and sustenance, and made it clear he wanted her continued financial support. Mary Shelley and her father maintained an intimate, troubled relationship until the day he died.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aWilliam Godwin's influence on Mary Shelley pervades her novels, especially in the figure of the father. Her first two novels, Frankenstein and Mathilda, are both energized by the question of father-daughter incest. In Frankenstein, the spurned, abandoned monster can be viewed as a figure for a child made loathsome by the father's incestuous desire. Mary Shelley uses Frankenstein to chart the way a daughter can vent her rage on the figure of the father and eventually gain control over him.
520 8 $aMathilda focuses more directly than Frankenstein on the question of father-daughter incest; it is remarkable for its vivid portrayal of the ambivalent emotions of incest victims.
600 10 $aShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,$d1797-1851$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aGodwin, William,$d1756-1836$xInfluence.
600 10 $aShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft,$d1797-1851$xFamily.
650 0 $aFathers and daughters$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aFathers and daughters in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004184
852 00 $bglx$hPR5398$i.H5 1995
852 00 $bbar$hPR5398$i.H5 1995