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Vault of Frankenstein
Beginning with the story of how Mary Shelley first conceived of the novel (on a stormy night on the shores of Lake Geneva), Vault of Frankenstein traces the incredible history of how the nameless abomination in Shelley's classic novel became a pop culture icon. Frankenstein's monster has been a hero and a villain, in both comedies and dramas. He has evolved from a literary character to an international superstar, appearing in films, TV shows, comic books, and commercial merchandise. Featuring removable replica memorabilia--such as Shelley's manuscript pages, movie posters, a playbill, and a photograph of Boris Karloff on set for the iconic 1931 portrayal of the character--this retrospective collection explores the many facets of the enduring and often tragically misunderstood character.
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Hemiplegic migraine and stroke in Mary Shelley
In 1839, she had recurrent, severe headaches whose severity, location, and duration were variable.1 These headaches were associated with dizziness; pain in the legs, right hand, and right eye; and episodes of transient partial paralysis of the right leg and hand, with tremors, convulsive seizures, and severe pain on the top of the head.2 She was diagnosed with psychosomatic illness in 1842, “functional derangement in the nerves or brain” in 1845, and back pain and “neuralgia of the heart” in 1846.2,3 In early 1847, she underwent surgery to relieve pressure on her spinal nerves that left her weak, barely able to move, and in intolerable pain.2,3 Symptoms worsened in November, 1849, when she reported severe head pain, weakness on her right side, and speech impairment.1 She became paralysed and intermittently aphasic and had seizures.After external examination, but no autopsy, the supposed cause of the death was given as a tumour in the left hemisphere that was thought to have been present for a number of years.1,3 However, we suspect that many of Shelley's neurological symptoms were caused by recurrent episodes of hemiplegic migraine, characterised by unilateral weakness and hemiparesis, rather than a tumour, because of the intermittent and spontaneously resolving nature of the symptoms, and the absence of any signs of intracerebral compression.
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Mary who wrote Frankenstein
\"How does a story begin? Sometimes it begins with a dream, and a dreamer. Mary is one such dreamer, a little girl who learns to read by tracing the letters on the tombstone of her famous feminist mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, and whose only escape from her strict father and overbearing stepmother is through the stories she reads and imagines. Unhappy at home, she seeks independence, and at the age of sixteen runs away with poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, another dreamer. Two years later, they travel to Switzerland where they meet a famous poet, Lord Byron. On a stormy summer evening, with five young people gathered around a fire, Byron suggests a contest to see who can create the best ghost story. Mary has a waking dream about a monster come to life. A year and a half later, Mary Shelley's terrifying tale, Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus, is published -- a novel that goes on to become the most enduring monster story ever and one of the most popular legends of all time\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Critical Edge of Learning
In this article, Jacqueline Rose argues that nineteenth-century literary writing, notably Mary Shelley’s relatively unknown Valperga, published the year Birkbeck was launched, has much to say about the crisis facing the humanities in the UK and worldwide today. Shelley’s text is a plea against tyranny. Birkbeck was founded, to acclaim and hostility, in order to make the pursuit of knowledge and critical thought available to the working class. Tracing her own educational experience, Rose argues that these issues have never been more urgently in need of attention than today.
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Mary Shelley : a very short introduction
Famous for her novel 'Frankenstein', Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores the context and key themes in the life and work of this courageous, complicated, and accomplished woman.
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Frankenstein : character studies
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most widely read novels of all time. Its two central characters, the scientist Victor Frankenstein and the being he creates, have gained mythic status in their own right. Engaging with the novel's characterization is crucial to gaining a real understanding of its themes and contexts, including education, gender difference, imperialism, personal identity, revolutionary politics, and science. This study includes: an introductory overview of the novel, including a brief account of its historical and literary contexts; its reception history; discussion of the major themes and narrative structure; detailed analysis of, the representation of main characters, such as Walton, Frankenstein, and the creature; and a conclusion reminding students of the links between the characters and the key themes and issues.
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Mary's monster : love, madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
This free-verse biography with black-and-white watercolor illustrations depicts \"Frankenstein's\" young author, Mary Shelley.
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Contagious Sympathies in The Last Man
In The Last Man , Mary Shelley relies on theories of Romantic medicine that give her an unconventional way to conceptualize and narrate time and space. For the Romantics, organs, bodies, and communities were all intimately connected through \"sympathy.\" The Last Man carefully employs the connection between biological sympathy and contagious disease to consider how suffering inhabits space. Lionel's individual suffering intertwines with the global suffering from the fictional plague of the novel, which threatens the boundaries of both Europe and the white, European body much as its non-fictional counterpart, cholera, does. As time and history grind to a halt, space is disconcertingly reconfigured by shrinking geographical distances between Black and white bodies, which threatens the cohesion of white identity even as it reinforces its sovereignty.
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Bloom's how to write about Mary Shelley
This volume provides guidance to analyzing and writing about Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
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\All the World's a Stage\
This book examines the often tragic and nearly always disabling metaphor of thetheatrum mundi, world-as-stage, as it plays itself out in the characters of Mary Shelley's novels.
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