English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1226 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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The idea
Mary Shelley, daughter of Wollstonecraft and Godwin, began Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in a ghost-story contest proposed by Byron in Switzerland. Published anonymously in eighteen eighteen, revised in eighteen thirty-one, it tells of a student who brings a creature to life.
In practice
A ghost-story contest; a created being.
Where people slip
Frankenstein is the maker, not the creature.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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