Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Companion (Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography and Character Index)(Annotated)BookCaps
David has a Master's in English literature. He has taught college English for 5+ years. Cite this lesson Figurative language makes our writing more vivid and lively, but can also be really confusing. A lot of figurative language is based on the historical and cultural context in which it...
Frankenstein, Susan, and M. J. Rowlands, 1978, The Internal Structure and Regional Context of Early Iron Age Society in South-western Germany, London University Institute of Archaeology Bulletin 15:73–112. Google Scholar Freidel, David A., 1978, Maritime Adaptation and the Rise of Maya Civi...
Social references and literature go hand in hand. This lesson shows, through a variety of different examples, the impact that literature and society have on each other. Importance of Reference It has been observed that times of great social friction tend to produce great works of literature. Aft...
Percy Bysshe is best known for poems like “Ozymandias,” while Mary is remembered most frequently as the author of Frankenstein. 205 votes Cool artifact? 15 Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter A Chinese typewriter is far from an ordinary typewriter. More than a century after such devices became ...
" Like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein's monstrous creation, Al Qaida is the C.I.A.'s gift to the world. The C.I.A. in turn (whose Virginia headquarters has at its entrance Jesus' words: "You shall know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free"), like Frankenstein plays God (...
A prime example is The Evil of Frankenstein in 1964. It bears an onscreen Hammer name, was shot at Bray Studios, directed by Freddie Francis from a script by Tony Hinds and starring Hammer’s leading man Peter Cushing. It is in every essence a typical Hammer film, except the budget was...
In Frankenstein’s Science: Experimentation and Discovery in Romantic Culture, 1780–1830; King, C.K., Goodall, J.R., Eds.; Ashgate: Burlington, Canada, 2008. [Google Scholar] Olmsted, J.M.D. François Magendie; Arno Press: New York, NY, USA, 1944. [Google Scholar] Gross, C.G. ...
Silliman, Stephen W. 2015 A Requiem for Hybridity? The Problem with Frankensteins, Purées, and Mules.Journal of Social Archaeology15(3):277–298. Google Scholar Singleton, Theresa A. 1999 An Introduction to African-American Archaeology. In“I, Too, Am America”: Archaeological Studies of Afric...
years as horror resurged, The Wasp Woman was likely produced to cash in on the success of Kurt Neumann’s The Fly (1958), and also emerged at a moment when genre cinema was toying with fusions of horror and science-fiction elements (Terence Fisher’s The Curse of Frankenstein; Fred F....