Online course
Understanding Frankenstein
€47.00
Explore Mary Shelley's classic of literature: its rich literary text, its context of production and publication, and its associations with wider philosophical and aesthetic debates!
7 pre-recorded lessons
What will you learn?
Introductory Lesson: Who was Mary Shelley?
Get started with an overview of Mary Shelley's life and writing career.
Lesson 1: Its Creation Story
Learn about the context of creation and publication of Frankenstein, the authorship question, the different editions, and read extracts from Percy Shelley’s preface and Mary’s introduction.
Lesson 2: The Context of Romanticism
Explore how Frankenstein engages with the Romantic tradition in literary history, and how the novel goes beyond, already anticipating aesthetic and content concerns that would be explored by authors in later periods.
Lesson 3: The Narrative Style
Learn about the complex narrative structure of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, and the allusions and references in the novel to the myth of Prometheus, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Lesson 4: The Monstrous and the Human
Explore the blurring lines between the monstrous and the human, and between the human and the non-human and the post-human in Frankenstein.
Lesson 5: The Female Gothic
Learn about the Gothic in English literary history, its characteristics and how Frankenstein engages with and simultaneously challenges some of its tropes, offering something new to her readership. Learn also about the term “female Gothic”, and how Mary Shelley positions herself as part of this female literary history with her introduction to the 1831 edition of the novel.
Lesson 6: The Mad Scientist?
Study the relationships between Shelley’s novel and science, and how it anticipates the genre of science fiction.
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