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Andrew Klush
Eng 101H
Mr. Panza
Essay on Monstrosity
Mary Shelley made her reputation of being one of the best Romantic authors on the basis of just one book. The notoriety that came with being the daughter of two famous authors helped, as did her age at the time of conceiving the book, but Frankenstein was the only one of her stories to achieve any fame. The level of fame it achieved, however, was astounding. In fact, even though it was originally published in 1818, Alasdair Gray still saw fit to use Frankenstein as his primary inspiration for Poor Things in 1992. The Gothic Romantic nature of both of these books is well known, but the monstrosity contained within them is an interesting topic to examine.

Romantic literature was known to contain notions of a return to nature, and exaltation of senses and emotions over logic and reason, and the Gothic Romance movement had these elements as well as a typically dark setting and supernatural overtones (Gothic romance 1). Shelley......

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