"Not this time, Victor!": Mary Shelley's reversioning of Elizabeth, from Frankenstein to Falkner / Betty T. Bennett -- "To speak in Sanchean phrase": Cervantes and the politics of Mary Shelley's History of a six weeks' tour / Jeanne Moskal -- The impact of Frankenstein / William St. Clair -- From The fields of fancy to Matilda: Mary Shelley's changing conception of her novella / Pamela Clemit -- Mathilda as dramatic actress / Charles E. Robinson -- Between romance and history: possibility and contingency in Godwin, Leibniz, and Mary Shelley's Valperga / Tilottama Rajan -- Future uncertain: the republican tradition and its destiny in Valperga / Michael Rossington -- Reading the end of the world: The last man, history, and the agency of romantic authorship / Samantha Webb -- Kindertotenlieder: Mary Shelley and the art of losing / Constance Walker -- Politicizing the personal: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and the coterie novel / Gary Kelly -- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley: the female author between public and private spheres / Mitzi Myers -- Poetry as souvenir: Mary Shelley in the annuals / Judith Pascoe -- "Trying to make it as good as I can": Mary Shelley's editing of P.B. Shelley's poetry and prose / Michael O'Neill -- Mary Shelley's Lives and the reengendering of history / Greg Kucich -- Blood sisters: Mary Shelley, Liz Lochhead, and the monster / E. Douka Kabitoglou.