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A podcast about the legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
This episode features an audio clip from How I Met Your Mother season 3 episode 8 “Spoiler Alert,” written by Stephen Lloyd, directed by Pamela Fryman, and starring Josh Radnor and Cobie Smulders (CBS). It also features an audio clip from a 1986 commercial for Frankenberry Cereal.
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Frankenstein was revised several times in the early years of its rise to fame–by Percy Shelley, by William Godwin, and, in 1831, by Mary herself.
Sources:
A collation of the 1818 and 1831 editions of Frankenstein from the University of Pennsylvania: http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Colv1/ftitl…
In this bonus episode, I interview Rachel Feder, the author of Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankenstein.
Harvester of Hearts is published by Northwestern University Press: http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/harvester-hearts
Rachel can be found at: https://www.rachel…
In 1828, Edinburgh University was the premier institution of medical science in the English speaking world. That created a demand for dead bodies to be dissected. Two enterprising Irish immigrants, William Burke and William Hare, saw an opportunity to go into business, and so became the United King…
Nobody ever really talks about Mary Shelley’s later novels. There’s a reason for that.
Sources:
Mary Shelly, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Erin L Webster Garrett, “The politics of ambivalence: romance, history, and gender in Mary W. Shelley’s Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck.…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Werther, is one of the most important texts in the romanticist movement, and is one of only three books with which Frankenstein’s creature learns how to read, alongside Plutarch’s Lives and Paradise Lost. But it’s not even the mos…
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