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DIANE LONG HOEVELER (ESSAY DATE 1997)

SOURCE: Hoeveler, Diane Long. "Mary Shelley and Gothic Feminism: The Case of 'The Mortal Immortal.'" In Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein: Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley's Birth, edited by Syndy M. Conger, Frederick S. Frank, and Gregory O'Dea, pp. 150-63. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997.

In the following essay, Hoeveler discusses the "Gothic feminism"—characterized by women engaging in passive-aggressive, self-negating behavior—in Shelley's works, particularly in the short story "The Mortal Immortal."

During the month of May 1794, the most popular drama in London, playing nightly to packed houses at Covent Garden, was Henry Siddons's The Sicilian Romance; or The Apparition of the Cliff, loosely based on Ann Radcliffe's second novel, published in 1790. One of the more interesting...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Essay Date March 1824)
   2. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Story Date 1891)
4. General Commentary
   1. Diane Long Hoeveler (Essay Date 1997)
5. Title Commentary
   1. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
   2. Fred Botting (Essay Date 2000)
6. Further Reading

1. Mary Shelley