Course
Description: Known only for one novel--Frankenstein--Mary Shelley
was a major figure of her age. As daughter of Enlightenment radicals Mary Wollstonecraft
and William Godwin, wife of Percy Shelley, and friend of major Romantic figures
such as Lord Byron, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt, her own life developed
amidst a period of great cultural and intellectual ferment. This course will
explore how Shelley's fiction reflects the exciting historical --scientific,
political, philosophical, cultural and intellectual--context surrounding her.
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