The Lady and Her Monsters

Zusatztext "A haunting picture of an era in which science and the arts overlapped! a perfect storm in which inspiration for "Frankenstein" could strike. Like a bolt of lightning." Informationen zum Autor Roseanne Montillo holds an MFA from Emerson College in Massachusetts, where she teaches as a professor of literature. She is the author of The Lady and Her Monsters . Klappentext Exploring the frightful milieu in which Frankenstein was written, Roseanne Montillo recounts how Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein mirrored actual scientists of the period. Montillo paints a rich portrait of Shelley and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their contemporaries, as well as their friend Lord Byron. Intellectually curious, they were artists, poets, and philosophers, united in captivation with the occultists and the daring scientists risking their reputations and their immortal souls to advance our understanding of human anatomy and medicine. Juxtaposing monstrous mechanization and rising industrialism with the sublime beauty and decadence of the legendary Romantics who defined the age, Montillo takes us into a world where poets become legends in salons and boudoirs; where fame-hungry "doctors" conduct shocking performances for rabid, wide-eyed audiences; and where maniacal body snatchers secretly toil in castle dungeons. Zusammenfassung The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times! startling science! and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece! Frankenstein . Montillo recounts how—at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution—Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death. With true-life tales of grave robbers! ghoulish experiments! and the ultimate in macabre research—human reanimation— The Lady and Her Monsters is a brilliant exploration of the creation of Frankenstein! Mary Shelley’s horror classic. ...

Product details

• Authors: Roseanne Montillo
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2013
• EAN: 9780062025838
• ISBN: 978-0-06-202583-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Anatomy, PHYSIOLOGY, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, History of Medicine, History of Science, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Biology, life sciences, United States of America, USA, General and world history, Human biology, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY: WORLD, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, HISTORY: Modern / 19th Century, SCIENCE: Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology, MEDICAL: Anatomy, SCIENCE: History, MEDICAL: History, MEDICAL: Physiology