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The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps. Byron suggested that each write a ghost story. If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account, only she and poor Polidori took the contest seriously.

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List of Illustrations Preface Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and Frankenstein: A Chronology Part I. Traditions: Looking Forwards and Backwards Part II. Biographical Soundings: Of Mothers and Daughters Part III. Contexts: Society and Self Part IV. Texture: Language and the Grotesque Part V: The Visual Progeny: Drama and Film Appendix Contributors Selected Annotated Bibliography Index

The Endurance of Frankenstein Essays on Mary

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 19/05/1982
      ISBN13: 9780520046405, 978-0520046405
      ISBN10: 0520046404
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The two Shelleys, Byron, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairmont, and John William Polidori (Byron's physician) spent a wet, ungenial summer in the Swiss Alps. Byron suggested that each write a ghost story. If one is to trust Mary Shelley's account, only she and poor Polidori took the contest seriously.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Preface Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and Frankenstein: A Chronology Part I. Traditions: Looking Forwards and Backwards Part II. Biographical Soundings: Of Mothers and Daughters Part III. Contexts: Society and Self Part IV. Texture: Language and the Grotesque Part V: The Visual Progeny: Drama and Film Appendix Contributors Selected Annotated Bibliography Index

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