TY - JOUR ID - 012464ar T1 - Groundless Metaphors and Living Maps in the Writing of Mary Shelley A1 - McEvoy, Emma JO - Romanticism on the Net IS - 40 SN - 1467-1255 Y1 - 2005 Y2 - 18 mars 2024 23:43 PB - Université de Montréal LA - EN AB - In this article I consider Mary Shelley’s use of figuration, examining its characteristic forms. In three main sections address her use of allegory, what I call the “infection of the metaphorical”, and the groundless metaphor. Shelley’s writing will be looked at in dialogic relation to her predecessors and contemporaries and her peculiar stylistics discussed in terms of her sceptical attitude toward, and undermining of Romantic idealism. There will be specific emphasis on her treatment of favourite Romantic projects - nature, writing the self and the perceiving mind. Shelley will be discussed both as revisionist and saboteuse in her attitude to language. DO - https://doi.org/10.7202/012464ar UR - https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/012464ar DP - Érudit: www.erudit.org DB - Érudit ER -