The Last Man Av Mary Shelley

This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The 1826 Henry Colburn edition of the novel, the only one approved by Mary Shelley. * Introduction and explanatory footnotes by Chris Washington. * A rich selection of contextual documents—twenty-six in all—pertaining to The Last Man’s background and sources, reception and impact, other related works by Shelley, and other “Last Man” texts. * Fourteen carefully chosen critical assessments on the novel’s major themes. * A chronology of Mary Shelley’s life and work and a selected bibliography