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The Lady and Her Monsters
A Tale of Dissections, Real-life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
New York, NY : Willam Morrow, [2013]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Contents:
The spark of life -- Waking the dead -- Making monsters -- A meeting of two minds -- Eloping to the mainland -- My hideous progeny -- Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus -- The anatomy act -- A sea change.
Subjects:
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Friends and associates.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 -- Friends and associates.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9780062025814 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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LITERATURE She | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-310) and index.