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Shelly's book is easily one of my top five or ten of all time, and it's almost unbearably innovative and as rich and ambiguous in its symbolism as anything Melville or James ever wrote.
It's anti-Romantic, presenting Paracelsus and mysticism as destructive forces, but it's also skeptical of the Enlightenment values of Shelly's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft; it's not overfond of what society does to people but terrified that anyone should live without human company; it's both heartbreak...more
It's anti-Romantic, presenting Paracelsus and mysticism as destructive forces, but it's also skeptical of the Enlightenment values of Shelly's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft; it's not overfond of what society does to people but terrified that anyone should live without human company; it's both heartbreak...more
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Read this for a humanities class on Culture, Society, and Advanced Technology.
Read in January, 2001
Read in February, 2009
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