Frankenstein: A Cultural History by Susan Tyler Hitchcock

Frankenstein: A Cultural History

Susan Tyler Hitchcock

392 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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Frankenstein began as the nightmare of an unwed teenage mother in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1816. At a time when the moral universe was shifting and advances in scientific knowledge promised humans dominion over that which had been God's alone, Mary...

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