The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Klappentext The author of "Young Romantics" explores the time, place, objects and manuscripts that influenced or contributed to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". This stripping of the novel down to its constituent parts reveals Mary Shelley from an original perspective. Zusammenfassung In this book! Daisy Hay explores the novel's time and place! its people! the relics of its long afterlife and the notebooks in which it was created. This is a compelling and innovative biography of the novel for all those fascinated by its essential! brilliant chaos.

Auteur

Daisy Hay is the author of Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives and Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance.

Résumé
In this book, Daisy Hay explores the novelâ™s time and place, its people, the relics of its long afterlife and the notebooks in which it was created. This is a compelling and innovative biography of the novel for all those fascinated by its essential, brilliant chaos.