Critical
Bibliography
I list here works discussing 'The
Mortal Immortal', as well as the ones I refer to in my notes. For
a more general bibliography on Mary Shelley, see Steven Jones' bibliography for his electronic edition of The
Last Man.
- Booth,
Bradford Allen (ed.) A Cabinet of Gems: Short
Stories from the English Annuals . Berkeley:
University of California press, 1938. [The introduction
discusses the readership of gift-books].
- Byron,
Lord (George Gordon). The Complete Poetical Works.
Ed. Jerome J. McGann. 7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1980-93.
- Garnett,
Richard, ed. Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley: Tales and Stories. The
Treasure House of Tales by Great Authors. London:
William Paterson & Co., 1891. [Contains an introduction to Tales and Stories].
- Charles
Gibbon, ed. The
Casquet of Literature: being a Selection of Prose and
Poetry from the Works of the Most Admired Authors, 4
vols. London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1873. [Includes
a biographical note before 'The Mortal Immortal'].
- Hofkosh,
Sonia.
"Disfiguring Economies: Mary Shelley's Short
Stories." The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond
Frankenstein . Ed. Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K.
Mellor, and Esther H. Schor. New York and Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1993. [Discusses notions of class and
beauty in Shelley's short stories - Comments
upon the engraving of Bertha].
- Hopkins,
Lisa. 'Memory at the End of History:
Mary Shelley's The Last Man.' Romanticism On the Net 6
(1997): n. p. [Briefly discusses the notion of
history in 'The
Mortal Immortal'].
- Hunter,
J. Paul, ed.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. New York and
London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
- Ireland,
Samuel William Henry. 'Miscellaneous Writers'. Scribbleomania;
Or, The Printer's Devil's Polichronicon. A Sublime Poem.
London: Sherwood, Neeley and Jones, 1815.
- The
Keepsake for 1828, ed. Frederic Mansel Reynolds.
London: Hurst, Chance, & Co., 1827.
- The
Keepsake for 1829, ed. Frederic Mansel Reynolds.
London: Hurst, Chance, & Co., 1828.
- The
Keepsake for 1834, ed. Frederic Mansel Reynolds.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman,
[1833].
- Knoepflmacher,
U. C.
"Thoughts on the Aggression of Daughters." The
Endurance of Frankenstein: Essays on Mary Shelley's Novel
. Ed. George Levine and U. C. Knoepflmacher. Berkeley,
Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press,
1979. [Briefly discusses 'The Mortal Immortal' alongside Frankenstein].
- Lempriere,
J[ohn]. Lempriere's
Classical Dictionary. London: Bracken Books, 1984.
- Lockhart,
J. G. Memoirs
of the Life of Sir Walter Scott - A New Edition, Complete
in One Volume. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1842.
- Lyles, W.
H. Mary
Shelley: An Annotated Bibliography . New York:
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1975. [Provides a list of
publications and secondary works - slightly outdated].
- Moore,
Thomas. Moore's
Poetical Works. Complete in one volume. New York: D.
Appleton & Co., 1857.
- O'Donohue,
Nick.
"Condemned to Life: 'The Mortal Immortal' and 'The
Man Who Never Grew Young'." Death and the
Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy
. Ed. Carl B. Yoke and Donald M. Hassler. Wesport,
Connecticut and London, England: Greenwood Press, 1985.
[Discusses Shelley's story alongside Fritz Leiber's 'The
Man Who Never Grew Young'].
- de
Palacio, Jean.
Mary Shelley dans son oeuvre: Contributions aux
etudes shelleyennes . Paris: Edition Klincksieck,
1969. [Discusses briefly 'The Mortal Immortal' with
regards the theme of the Wandering Jew, and with
references to the Gothic and Shelley's other stories].
- Phy, Allene
Stuart. Mary
Shelley. Starmont Reader's Guide 36. Mercer Island,
USA: Starmont House, 1988. [Offers a brief reading of the
story as a parody of Godwin's St. Leon].
- Rieger,
James. The
Mutiny Within: The Heresies of Percy Bysshe Shelley
. New York: George Braziller, 1967. [Mentions briefly the
humour of 'The Mortal Immortal'].
- Robinson,
Charles E. (ed.) Mary Shelley: Collected
Tales and Stories . Baltimore and London: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. [The
collection of Mary Shelley's tales and stories -
Informative 'Note'].
- The
Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-144. Ed. Paula R. Feldman and Diana
Scott-Kilvert. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1995 [1987]. [Entry on Mary
Shelley's daily occupation in July 1833].
- Smith,
Johanna M. Mary
Shelley . Twayne's English Authors Series. New
York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. [Briefly discusses 'The
Mortal Immortal' in her chapter 'Science Fiction: Short
Stories, Frankenstein , and The Last
Man'].
- Southey,
Robert The
Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Collected by Himself.
Ten volumes in one. New York: D. Appleton & Co.,
1839.
- The
Spectator 66 (January 3, 1891) 18-19.
[Review of Tales and Stories , ed. Richard
Garnett - 'The Mortal Immortal' is specifically praised
by the reviewer].
- Walling,
William A. Mary
Shelley . Twayne's English Authors Series. New
York: Twayne Publishers, 1972. [Mentions 'The Mortal
Immortal' in his discussion of the short stories, overall
not too favourable].
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