ABSTRACT This essay looks at Mary Shelley’s short story ‘The Heir of Mondolfo’ (c.1820s) and the author’s continuing interest in radical politics and the living world. I argue that, while Shelley’s early novels have rightly received a great deal of ecocritical attention, her later short stories, written for gift books and literary magazines, grapple with the question of how to ethically engage with extra-human environments within the increasingly reform-minded 1820s and 1830s. The first part of this essay looks at the form and cultural history of the gift book and how this has contributed towards the maligning of Shelley’s short stories, but also how Shelley subverts the genre with tales of tyranny, poverty, the mistreatment of women, and radical engagement with the living world. The second part explores ‘The Heir of Mondolfo’ and how it presents a feminist version of environmental themes raised in Frankenstein and The Last Man.

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“风似乎能同时激发和压抑人的心灵”：玛丽·雪莱和《蒙多尔福的继承人》中的家庭教育

摘要 本文着眼于玛丽雪莱的短篇小说“蒙多尔福的继承人”（约 1820 年代）以及作者对激进政治和现实世界的持续兴趣。我认为，虽然雪莱的早期小说理所当然地受到了大量生态批评的关注，但她后来为礼品书籍和文学杂志撰写的短篇小说努力解决如何在日益改革的情况下在道德上与超人类环境互动的问题—— 1820 年代和 1830 年代。本文的第一部分着眼于礼品书的形式和文化历史，以及这如何导致雪莱短篇小说的诽谤，以及雪莱如何用暴政、贫困、虐待妇女和虐待的故事颠覆这一流派。与生活世界的彻底接触。