century and Romantic period will be familiar enough to most readers of Romantic-period literature from the prominent role played by the polar regions in two of the period's best-known works: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798) and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)...
1996 D. SandnerFantastic Sublimeiii. x. 116 Such sublime landscapes appear often inFrankenstein. B.n. 1.Withthe. […] b.That quality in nature or art which inspires awe, reverence, or other high emotion; the great beauty of grandeur of an object, place, etc. Cf. sense A. 9. The s...
both extend andotherus. Like Dr Frankenstein the gap between creations made in the image of our ideals and results of our imperfect self knowledge are monstrous, but also compelling and perhaps instructional. Damien Roach Exhibition notes: Supersublime GIANT presentsSupersublime, a group exhibition t...
Lord Byron in a stanza of Don Juan, aiming at the impossible, might have achieved the sublime; MIZAN The ideological aim of Frankenstein recalls that assigned by Kant to the sublime. Literature Burning Man's irreverent humor comes out in pieces like Rebekah Waites' "Church Trap," a tin...
In Mary Shelley’sFrankenstein, the myopic antihero Victor describes a lightning storm he witnesses in the Alps on his way to meet his monster as “so beautiful yet terrific,”“a noble war in the sky” that lifted his spirits as “vivid flashes of lightning dazzled [his] eyes, illuminating...
Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Examining each text in these Weedman 2 terms provides insight into the ways in which monsters in Gothic literature are used to reflect social disharmony and how such ethical struggles are tempered by the sublime and the uncanny. ...
A notable by-product of the Romantic interest in the emotional were works dealing with the supernatural, the weird, and the horrible, as in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and works by Charles Robert Maturin, the Marquis de Sade, and E.T.A. Hoffmann. The second phase of Romanticism in Germany...
During this memorable summer, Shelley composed the poems “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” and “Mont Blanc,” and Mary began her novel Frankenstein. Shelley’s party returned to England in September, settling in Bath. Late in the year, Harriet Shelley drowned herself in London, and on December ...