...Hibberd considers two stage adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein appearing in London in 1823: Richard Brinsley Peake’s Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein, which played at the English Opera House near the Strand, and Henry Milner’s Frankenstein; or the Man and the Monster...

... of Frankenstein The Whale sentimentality in Brooks's Young Frankenstein Lombroso Cesare Frankenstein Edison Studios sentimentalism moral deformity Shaftesbury Adam Smith Mary Shelley Percy Shelley Dickens James Whale In “The Miser Convinced of His Error,” the serial tale featured in the first issue...

... announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and L. Frank Baum. Deploying political history, archival research, and textual analysis...

...This chapter traces an articulation of a broader family concept through nostalgia and mourning. The dynastic dimension of the family functioned in many texts of the era as something superannuated and quaint. In F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of the 1810s, Mary Shelley's The Last Man...

... thinkers such as Rousseau, Sade, Defoe, and Mary Shelley, the book shows how the Enlightenment conceived of mankind as an infinitely malleable entity, first with optimism, then with apprehension. Exposing the darker side of eighteenth-century thought, this book demonstrates how advances in science gave...

...Mary Shelley’s “Modern Prometheus” in the parable of Frankenstein presents an interesting coincidence with the French Revolution—which was itself an attempt to make a “new man” and a new nation. Shelley’s tale, however, is not alone in its theme of artificial creation. A novella by Nogaret has...

...This section considers Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—interpreted in its own time as suggesting an escaped slave or enraged free Black—as a satiric and symptomatic exploration of the impossible existence of the free Black in a progressive civil society. As Calvin Warren has suggested, the free Black...