"The Last Man created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel... [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work." Muriel Spark "A fascinating ... novel-romance on a timely subject." Studies in English Literature "An absorbing roman a clef, [it] develops one of the major themes of romantic art, that of spiritual isolation, and ... treats it in a unique way." The Year's Work in English Studies
