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Frankenstein - How A Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley's Creation (Hardcover)
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Frankenstein - How A Monster Became an Icon: The Science and Enduring Allure of Mary Shelley's Creation (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 4 520
You Save R198 (30%)
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The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a
rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley, newly married to the celebrated Romantic
poet Percy Shelley. Since its publication two years later, in 1818,
Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus has spread around the globe
through every possible medium and variation. Frankenstein has not
been out of print once in 200 years. It has appeared in hundreds of
editions, perhaps more than any other novel. It has inspired a
multitude of stage and screen adaptations, the latest appearing
just last year. "Frankenstein" has become an indelible part of
popular culture, and is shorthand for anything bizarre and
human-made; for instance, genetically modified crops are
"Frankenfood". Conversely, Frankenstein's monster has also become a
benign Halloween favourite. Yet for all its long history,
Frankenstein's central premise-that science, not magic or God, can
create a living being, and thus these creators must answer for
their actions as humans, not Gods-is most relevant today as
scientists approach creating synthetic life. In its popular and
cultural weight and its expression of the ethical issues raised by
the advance of science, physicist Sidney Perkowitz and film expert
Eddy von Muller have brought together scholars and scientists,
artists and directors-including Mel Brooks-to celebrate and examine
Mary Shelley's marvellous creation and its legacy as the monster
moves into his next century.
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