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...Until March 3; further information here ‘Surrealist Lee Miller’, Heide Museum of Modern Art The extraordinary career of the pioneering photographer Lee Miller is spanned here in 100 images curated by her...
...One of the main achievements of Lucasta Miller’s enlightening guide to the poems and their creator is to banish the sentimental image to which Shelley’s “Adonais” — published just a few months after Keats...
...The 200th anniversary of the death of Keats in marked by Lucasta Miller in Keats (Jonathan Cape, February), a “brief life in nine poems and one epitaph”....
...April 10-16 Frankenstein (Grey) In Mark Grey’s opera, given its premiere last year, Mary Shelley’s novel steps into the science fiction era....
...One of the genre’s earliest novels, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, published in 1826 but set in the late 21st century, uses a plague-ravaged world as a metaphor for the failure of the Romantic ideal....
...In the past decade alone, the Creature has been embodied by Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller on stage at London’s National Theatre, and by the artists of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden; he has...
...is an energetic, fascinating and deeply researched book which is as much about the “strange pause” — the slippery, ambiguous hinterland in literature and history between the end of the Romantic era of Shelley...
...Now We Shall be Entirely Free, by Andrew Miller, Sceptre, RRP£18.99 A novel set during the Napoleonic wars by the author of the Costa Award-winning Pure....
...A good example is Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, published in 1826 and widely considered to be the first true work of apocalyptic science fiction, in which civilisation is wiped out by a plague....
...In the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Oscar Wilde, as in the earlier Romantic writing of Shelley and ETA Hoffmann, the double is a manifestation of something repressed, unrecognised, or unexplored....
...Today we opt for pints of ale at the Catherine Wheel and the Miller of Mansfield, two (perhaps the only two) local pubs....
...There are no mothers in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein....
...All the excitement and dread of Mary Shelley’s classic without the stuffy prose....
...Nor does Shelley Harris, whose debut, Jubilee, has just been sold to Weidenfeld & Nicholson and is due to be published in 2012....
...is the author of annual antiques and collectables guides for Millers …………………………….....
...Mr Cameron said there had been “zero signs of any heavy handedness by Gazprom” during the negotiations and that joint ownership of the refinery had been signed off by Alexei Miller, the head of Gazprom,...
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