Frankenstein timeline
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Updated: 21 Sep 2017
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birth of Mary Shelley
dad : W.GODWIN (political philosopher)
mom : Mary Wollstonecraft, a feminist writermother's deathfather remarriedheard the Poem "The Rime of the Mariner for the first time"ran away to France with Percy
Bysshe Shelley, an eminent poetMary and Percy got marriedPercy's DeathFrankenstein was published (without Mary Shelley's name)Mary Shelley's name first attached to "Frankenstein""The last Man" by Mary Shelleydeath of Mary ShelleyFirst experiment of electricity on animal tissues
by Scientist Luigi Galvani.
“Galvanism” can be defined as the effect of the
application of electric current pulses through
body tissues that causes muscle contraction.started writing Frankenstein,
challenged by Lord Byronbirth of SCIENCE FICTION :
questioning the impact
of science on societyPeriods
traveling through
Europe
, studying,
writinghad four
children,
three died1760 -1820 GOTHIC PERIOD : gothic novels highly popular : mystery / horror / supernatural / gloomy atmosphere/ inspiring fear1798-1832 ROMANTIC MOVEMENT : optimism about human possibilities-
individual > society - imagination, emotion > reason -
celebration of nature - COLERIDGE - KEATS- P.SHELLEY- LORD BYRON1760-1840 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
breakthroughs in science/technology // economic suffering - social disorder18th century : THE ENLIGHTENMENT : reason / logic
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