ENGL 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Godwin
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Mary shelley (daughter of mary wollstonecraft and william godwin - 2 prominent. Began writing frankenstein while visiting her husband (percy shelley) & lord byron in. She wrote 6 other novels but frankenstein was the most popular. 18c massive advancements in learning and science. Romantic period usually refers to the period between french revolution(1789) and the beginning of victoria"s reign (1837) New awareness and emphasis on individual experience - poet/artist hero gures. Fascination with nature & especially the sublime, as an inspiration for passionate feelings & therefore passionate art. Major literary gures: william wordsworth, samuel coleridge, anna laetitia. Frankenstein is set up on a series of nested stories - stories within stories that all inform one another. Books themselves sometimes tell stories beyond their narrative content - the story that made the story. Page 47 of the book reproduces the original title page of the 1818 edition.
