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Mary Shelly’s.  Film…  Toys…  Politics  Author:  Mary Shelley, age 19  At the house of the poet Lord Byron with husband Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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1 Mary Shelly’s

2  Film…  Toys…

3  Politics

4

5  Author:  Mary Shelley, age 19  At the house of the poet Lord Byron with husband Percy Bysshe Shelley  References Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”  Written in 1818  One of the first to use science as a means of creating new life, rather than with a supernatural means

6  Fits two literary genres!  The Gothic novel  The Romantic novel

7  Beginnings attributed to Horace Walpole and The Castle of Otranto (1764).  Elements:  setting in a castle  mystery and suspense  high levels of emotion  the supernatural  women in distress  women threatened by a powerful male  a pervading mood of gloom and horror

8  An importance of feeling and imagination  Favored emotion over reason and logic  The use of a suspension of belief  A quest for beauty  A use of the abnormal or fanciful  Nature as a source of knowledge and a revelation of God  The idea that man is naturally good and society corrupts him (i.e. “the noble savage”).  Improbable plots  A nostalgia for the Gothic and the supernatural

9  Introduction to the book  Who was Prometheus?

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