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Comment on Nature vs. Fantasy by Josh Ambrose
Do you think that reanimation is a greater impossibility for Shelley’s audience or today’s science-informed one? I’m not sure which is the bigger leap. In fact, I think Shelley’s audience might have accepted the plausibility of it in a way that we simply would not.
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Questions of Genre
I spent the early afternoon reading the first volume of Frankenstein and the rest of the afternoon trying to figure out if I had anything worthwhile to say about it. As I began Frankenstein I couldn’t help but notice stylistic similarities between it and books I had read in the past, namely Dracula and Dr. […] Continue reading
Nature vs. Fantasy
In Frankenstein, the impossibilities of fantasy are overshadowed by the power and reality of science. By its publication in 1818, electric batteries, steamboats, and locomotives were all recent developments. Dalton had just published his atomic theory, and the first asteroids had been discovered. Science was growing to replace fantasy with evidenced rational, but it was […] Continue reading
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Greetings Earthlings!!!
I have just opened this blog particularly for my Science Fiction Literature Class at George Mason University (Pretty sweet deal, right?). I don’t have much to say right now, and I have to take my nephew to football practice in a little bit (Nothing like watching ten year boys crack each others skulls). So, until […]
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