Talk:Mathilda (novella)

Title
Should the title be Matilda or Mathilda? MikeMullins 16:28, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the correct spelling is Mathilda Count de Ville 02:58, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Genre
Is Novella a genre or format?

Matilda
Mary Shelly wrote the short novel "Mathilda" in 1819, but not published until 1959. It was intially entitled "Fields of Fancy", a story about father-daughter increst, where a female character begins to tell her story of misery within anthor story of misery, in the end she chose to remove this framework, thus emphasizing the incestous nature of the sufferings.

In "Writing and Re-writing Incest in Mary Shelly's Mathilda." Keats-Shelley Joirnal 45 (1996) Margaret Davenport Garrets comments on the novella, that Mathilda could be seen as a rewriting of the ancient increst myth, and that Mary Shelley thus speaks of the problem of love between a woman and a man, when it takes place in a cultural environment where the the woman thinks of herself as morally inferior being and knowing that society expect her to be protected by a male-be it father, brother or husband. Thus the story can be seen as a metaphor for what happens when a woman,ignorant of all consequences, follows her own heart while being dependent on her male benefactor. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.106.222.11 (talk) 03:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

Possible external link: free audio version
This is available in MP3 and OGG formats at LibriVox: http://librivox.org/mathilda-by-mary-shelley/

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Greenreader (talk) 19:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC)