The birth of Frankenstein and of its Monster are among the most celebrated events in literary
and popular history. In fact, the latter event occupies a few understated lines in the novel, but …

The story of the English Romantic writers on Lake Geneva in the sununer of 1816 is familiar
enough to have passed into literary folklore. It has been filmed by Ken Russell, dramatized …

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary
Godwin began writing Frankenstein, the idea that a woman could dream up such a tale was …

" In this new edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, David Wootton's Introduction gives the
reader both a clear and gripping account of the biographical circumstances that led to the …

Mary Shelley must have been very lucky at cards. It's not as if she was unhappy at love: she
was full of passions, and they were often stormily requited. But she was certainly unlucky …

Anne K. Mellor level, I would like to respond to it only in relation to my ways of accounting for
Mary Shelley's life and its reflection in her fiction. Specifically, I want to explore the degree to …

T'S A COMMONPLACE NOW, that everybody talks about Frankenstein, but nobody reads it.
That depends on what is meant by" nobody." It is possible, of course, that" Frankenstein" …

This thesis takes a biographical approach to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and suggests that
her novel reveals the careful process of consideration she gave to becoming a professional …

While the general conflict in Frankenstein is between personal ambition and the restraints of
the community, the hero's intellectual pursuit is specifically in rebellion against the father's …

Abstract Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel by Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley (née Godwin; 1797–1851), published in 1818 and revised in 1831. It tells the story …