Two hundred years ago, on a dark and stormy night in Switzerland, a group of young English intellectuals challenged one another to invent a frightening story. Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley—the daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft—devised the most horrific tale, which in its many forms forever altered and continually haunts the landscape of literature and popular imagination. Considered among the first sci-fi stories in the form of a novel, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, documents the dire consequences of Victor Frankenstein’s quest to assemble from corpses and reanimate a creature of his own design. On display here are illustrated versions of the novel, several representations of the many new creations, re-creations, and miscreations of Frankenstein’s creature that followed the original, and examples of the scientific and literary works that inspired Shelley.
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Doheny Memorial Library
3550 Trousdale Parkway
University Park Campus
University of Southern California
Los Angeles CA
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The Miscreation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
