Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein

Markman, Ellis. Fictions of science in Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. Sydney Studies in English 25 (1999) 27-46. 

In recent years, Mary Shelley s Frankenstein has often been described as the first science fiction novel.i Brian Aldiss, himself a writer of science fiction, amongst others identified... 

Although the research area of artificial life (AL) does not really fall within the scope of this book, it will be introduced briefly below. The dream that humankind can act as the creator of life can be found in various works of literature, for example Goethe s Faust, Strindberg s By the Open Sea or Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. There were also attempts to solve the problem of life from purely technical and... 

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. 1818. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The 1818 Text. Edited by James Rieger. Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 1982. 

In Passage 1, an excerpt from Mary Shelley s Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein explains his motive for creating his creature. In Passage 2, an excerpt from H.G. Wells 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dr. Moreau explains to the narrator why he has been performing experiments on animals to transform them into humans. 

Where can you find Shakespeare s complete works, Mary Shelley s Frankenstein, Louisa May Alcott s Little Women, and Herman Melville s Moby Dick If you thought of a bookstore or library, you re right, but did you know that you can also get them without ever leaving home These and over 14,000 other titles are available online at no charge through the University of Pennsylvania s On-Line Books Page (onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu). A smaller collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry (also free ) is accessible at www.Bartleby.com. 

However, there are numerous literature studies that deal with the much wider Faustian and Promethean tradition, which may include almost any profession from philosophers to writers, engineers, and politicians, and several studies on the legacy of Mary Shelley s Frankenstein, on which I occasionally draw. In addition, there are several studies on the literary image of medical doctors, including Browner 2005 and Rothfield 1992. 

The division of science into two cultures has its origin in this romantic contrast, the core of which is the religiously motivated critique of materialism, nihilism, and hubris. The critique of materialism in modem science is directed against the fact that it no longer needs a God as creator. Materialist science is atheist. To commit the sin of hubris means to give in to the ambitions of modem science to unravel the secrets of divine creation. Mary Shelley s Frankenstein marks the birth of the mad scientist, whose hubris not only leads himself into min, as was the case with his precursors, but now above all also the people in his environment. In the course of the nineteenth century the critique of modem science s hubris coincides with the moral critique of the obsessed scientist... 

Mary Shelley s Frankenstein is a classic of EngUsh Uterature. But, like Stephen Hawking s A Brief History of Time, it is one of those books that everybody knows about but few actuaUy read. 

Science fiction is a deep-rooted genre tracing itself back to the romantic novels of the early nineteenth century, typically Mary Shelley s Frankenstein. 

Florescu, Radu. In search of Frankenstein exploring the myths behind Mary Shelley s monster. Boston (MA) New York Graphic Society, 1975 reprint, New York Robson Books/ Parkwest, 1996. xvi, 287 p... 

Florescu explains the myths that inspired Mary Shelley to pen Frankenstein. Concentrating around the years 1814-6, Florescu examines magic, alchemy, Castle Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Shelley, and European history... 

Mary Shelley s novel Frankenstein was published over 180 years ago. But this remarkable novel raises a question that is more important today than ever What is a creator s responsibility for his or her creation ... 

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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus (Harmondsworth, 1985), p. 53. 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling Lord of the Rings (trilogy) by J.R.R. Tolkien Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson... 

Percy Bysshe Shelley is considered one of the finest English poets and a major figure in the nineteenth-century Romantic movement. Born in 1792, Shelley was educated at Eton but was expelled from Oxford University for writing a pamphlet on atheism. Shelley married Mary Wollstonecraft (later famous for her novel Frankenstein) and traveled in... 

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, in The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley ed. Nora Crook and Betty T. Bennett (London William Pickering, 1996), 1 25—27, 33—34. See also Crosbie Smith, Frankenstein and Natural Magic, in Frankenstein, Creation,and Monstrosity, ed. Stephen Bann (London Reaktion Books, 1994), 39—59. 

Mary Shelley s character Frankenstein has become an archetype in its own right, universally referred to and providing the dominant image of the scientist in twentieth-century fiction and film. Frankenstein is the prototype of the mad scientist who hides himself in his laboratory, secretly creating not an elixir of immortality but a new human life, only to find he has created a Monster. Not only has his name become virtually synonymous with any experiment out of control, but also his relation with his creation has become, in popular misconception, complete identification Frankenstein is the Monster. The power of the Frankenstein story can be attributed to the fact that, in its essentials, it was a product of the subconscious rather than the conscious mind of its author and thus, in Jungian terms, draws upon the collective unconscious of the race. 

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