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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2024
No clearer opposition can be found, for the replacement of a romantic, male, transcendentalist neglect of “matter” with an ever-emerging, multigendered, multigeneric, and intertextual materialism. And no literary activity addresses this materialism more fully than a shared, unabashedly sensual engagement with new vocabularies and the intertextual renewal of earlier literary accomplishments. Winterson in this passage is imagining the convergence of sensual and mental experience that moved Mary Shelley toward a life-changing literary engagement. It is an aesthetic projection by Winterson, in her own fictive work, on the same order as Mary and Percy Shelley’s shared reading (and Mary’s rewriting) of Ovid’s classic.
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