Instead of reading Mary Shelley’s 900-page fifth novel, Lodore, save yourself some time and listen to our episode on it!…
On the year of his death, we look at the life and work of one of the founders of British…
In this episode, you can hear Mary Shelley’s short story, “The Mortal Immortal,” presented in its entirety. This story was…
Why do we call Mary Shelley the inventor of science fiction? And why does it matter? We’ll explore those questions…
In our previous episode, I played an excerpt from Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine, in which the hosts discussed…
In this episode, I discuss the background of this podcast and play an excerpt from an episode of one of…
In this bonus episode, I interview Rachel Feder, the author of Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankenstein.…
Frankenstein was revised several times in the early years of its rise to fame–by Percy Shelley, by William Godwin, and,…
Nobody ever really talks about Mary Shelley’s later novels. There’s a reason for that. Sources: Mary Shelly, The Fortunes of Perkin…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Werther, is one of the most important texts in the romanticist movement, and…