Frankenstein : a cultural history /
Frankenstein began as the nightmare of an unwed teenage mother in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1816. At a time when the moral universe was shifting and advances in scientific knowledge promised humans dominion over that which had been God's alone, Mary Shelley envisioned a story of human presumption...
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
[2007]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Conception
- Birth and lineage
- Reception and revision
- The monster lives on
- Making more monsters
- A monster for modern times
- A brave new world of monsters
- The horror and the humor
- Monsters in the living room
- Taking the monster seriously
- The monster and his myth today.
