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Along with Sherlock Holmes and Dracula, Mary Shelley’s character has flown free of the text which spawned it: Frankenstein has become synonymous with biological experimentation, the creation of hybrid ‘monsters’, and the perils of playing God.
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“To better understand how certain works gain a stronghold in the literary canon we should broaden our perspective and adopt a multi-dimensional model of the literary work in culture,” Fishelov wrote. By taking this approach, Fishelov looked at the popularity of Shelley’s novel and the novel’s influence in mass culture, even as critics dismissed Fra...
Since the 1970s, feminist analyses of Frankenstein have dominated scholarship, inspired by the author’s life and experiences as much as by her writing. The BBC documentary2 Mary Shelley: The Birth of ‘Frankenstein’ offered this insight into why Shelley’s background has resonated so deeply: Shelley’s mother died shortly after giving birth – a trauma...
“Monsters are beings, objects, and ideas that live on the edges of law and bureaucracy, often hybrids of that which is included and that which is excluded, the sacred and the profane,” Sheryl Hamilton and Neil Gerlach wrote in their article “It Won’t Always Be Wrong: Morality and Monsters in Legal Rational Authority5.” From this point of view, mons...
Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley
- 1818
Jun 13, 2018 · Two hundred years since its publication, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is no longer just a tale of “thrilling horror” but its own myth, sent out into the world.
Frankenstein has become a classic not only because of its of pioneering theme of reanimating the dead, but also because of the interactions between its two main characters: the young...
Aug 2, 2023 · Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Gothic horror novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that was first published in 1818. The epistolary story follows a scientific genius who brings to life a terrifying monster that torments its creator. It is considered one of the first science-fiction novels.
Mar 14, 2018 · What Frankenstein Can Still Teach Us 200 Years Later. An innovative annotated edition of the novel shows how the Mary Shelley classic has many lessons about the danger of unchecked innovation
