FRANKENSTEIN
MARY SHELLY
30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and feminist activist Mary Wollstonecraft.
ROMANTICISM
Focus on the individual
A sense of idealism or optimism
Romanticism in art and literature was based in a part of the feeling of optimism About possibility that provided Western Culture and the American and French Revolution
Major Works
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History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817)
Frankenstein (1818)
Matilda (1820)
Valperga (1823)
The Last Man (1826)
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830)
Lodore (1835)
Falkner (1837)
Rambles in Italy and Germany (1844)
Focus on emotions and Imagination
THEMES
Alienation
Montrosity
Birth and Creation
The Family and Domestic Affection
GALVANISM
In The 1780s Luigi galvani a professor of anatomy conducted experiments on animal tissue Using a machine that could produce electrical Sparks
He concluded that animals tissue contained electricity in the form of fluid
The theory was incorrect but he had proven that muscles contracted in response to an electrical stimulus
GOTHIC LITERATURE
They feature wild and remote settings such as haunted castles or wind blasted moors and their plots involve violent or mysterious events
In literature the term applies to works with a brooding atmosphere that emphasize the unknown and inspire fear
It can mean harsh or cruel reffering to the barbaric Gothic tribes of the Middle ages.