This study takes a fresh look at one of the most fertile periods in English literature, and questions the validity of grouping such diverse talents as Blake, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Scott, and Austen under the critical label of `Romantic'.[...]
Frankenstein was Mary Shelley's immensely powerful contribution to the ghost stories which she, Percy Shelley, and Byron wrote one wet summer in Switzerland. Its protagonist is a young student of natural philosophy, who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from relics of th[...]