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Acts, Rules, and The Last Man

1998; University of California Press; Volume: 53; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/2902981

1067-8352

Mark Canuel,

Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought

A brilliant roman à clef that offers stunning portrayals of Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and other members of the author's circle, Mary Shelley's The Last Man (1826) also gives an account of a devastating plague that eventually eliminates the world's population. Critics often emphasize one of these two aspects of the work, viewing it either as a construction of the author's community or as a destruction (or