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- Title
Frankenstein Without Electricity: Contextualizing Shelley's Novel.
- Authors
HOUE, ULF
- Abstract
An essay is presented on the work of novelist Mary Shelley. It offers information on the history of scientific ideas which lead to the composition of the novel in period of the electric pioneers, discovery of caloric fluid called electricity, and mentions the study of different parts of the living body which is connected with alteration of electricity in the body.
- Subjects
SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851; COMPOSITION (Language arts); PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of electricity; STORY plots; WRITING ability testing; ROMANTICISM (Literary period)
- Publication
Studies in Romanticism, 2016, Vol 55, Issue 1, p95
- ISSN
0039-3762
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/srm.2016.0034