Last Man

Gothic literature is a genre in which female writers excel. Some critics attribute this phenomenon to the fact that female writers are affected by the pressure, harassment and cruelty they experience from their fathers, lovers and husbands in their private lives. Mary Shelley, with her novel The Last Man, published in 1826, gave the first modern example of the apocalyptic novel, a sub-genre of science fiction specific to Gothic literature, and became the leading author of this genre. Apocalyptic fiction, derived from the word apocalypse, meaning revelation or revealing the secrets about the future, examines the end of civilization due to epidemics, nuclear war, cybernetic uprising, supernatural events, ecological disasters or other disasters.

The Last Man, today. It is the first major novel to deal with a topic that has become so commonplace that it is considered ordinary: the extinction of humanity. Shelley dramatizes the effects of an epidemic on the Western world with the flowing style of the Romantic period and conveys it through a fiction centered around contrasting characters that are reflections of real people. The major characters in the novel are partially or completely inspired by people around Shelley. For example, Adrian, who drags his acquaintances along in search of a natural paradise, is a fictionalized portrait of the author's wife, Percy Bysshe Shelley. Lord Raymond, who set out from England to fight the Greeks and died in Istanbul, was inspired by the life of Lord Byron. The novel also expresses the author's pain at losing his environment, which he calls "the elite", the meaninglessness of the world, and the individual's lack of power to direct history. In his diary, Shelley refers to "the last man" as "my alter ego, my second self, the relic left behind from a beloved group when my comrades have predeceased me."


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Number of Pages: 400

Printing Year: 2013


e-Book:

Number of Pages: 437

Printing Year: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Can Yayınları