Screen Memories and Fictionalized Autobiography: Mary Shelley’s Mathilda and “The Mourner” Fiction and Autobiographical Theories

doi:10.4324/9781315606903-6

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Screen Memories and Fictionalized Autobiography: Mary Shelley’s Mathilda and “The Mourner” Fiction and Autobiographical Theories

ABSTRACT

If exterior space—the stage of the world—is a light, clear space where everyone’s behavior, movements, and motives are in plain sight, interior space is shadowy in its very essence.