Essays in Honour of the 200th Anniversary of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man

Today is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s dystopian novel The Last Man and we are excited to announce that we will be publishing a small collection of essays in the novel’s honour later in the year.  Shelley’s The Last Man was first published in London on 23 January 1826 and, unfortunately, received less than favourable reviews.  Given the novel’s poor reception it remained mostly unrecognised at the time of publication and it wasn’t reprinted until over 100 years later.

The collection of essays will be similar in scope to our collection from 2022 that commemorated the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s death, which you can find here.  Do get in touch with us if you would like to contribute a piece; we are happy to consider previously published essays.

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