Dedication Editor's Preface Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction; N.Cook PART I: THE CRAFT OF WRITING In Defence of the 1831 Frankenstein; N.Cook The Ends of the Fragment, the Problem of the Preface: Proliferation and Finality in The Last Man; S.Thomas Mary Shelley and Edward Bulwer: Lodore as Hybrid Fiction; R.Cronin PART II: GENDER Don't Say 'I Love You': Agency, Gender, and Romanticism in Mary Shelley's Matilda; A.Francois & D.Mozes Mary Shelley's Valperga : Italy and the Revision of Romantic Aesthetics; D.E.White Gender, Authorship and Male Domination: Mary Shelley's Limited Freedom in Frankenstein and The Last Man; M.Eberle-Sinatra The Truth in Masquerade: Cross-Dressing and Disguise in Mary Shelley's Short Stories; A.A.Markley PART III: THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE 'Little England': Anxieties of Space in Mary Shelley's The Last Man; J.M.Wright Mary Shelley and Walter Scott: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck and the Historical Novel; L.Garbin Mary Shelley and the Lake Poets: Negation and Transcendence in Lodore; D.Vallins Lodore : A Tale of the Present Time?; F.Stafford PART IV: THE PARENTAL LEGACY The Corpse in the Corpus: Frankenstein , Rewriting Wollstonecraft and the Abject; M.Mulvey-Roberts Rehabilitating the Family in Mary Shelley's Falkner; J.Saunders Public and Private Fidelity: Mary Shelley's 'Life of William Godwin' and Falkner; G.Allen Index