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1835 – Mary Shelley’s Lodore

May 31, 2019 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

Instead of reading Mary Shelley’s 900-page fifth novel, Lodore, save yourself some time and listen to our episode on it!…

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1834 – The Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

May 13, 2019 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

On the year of his death, we look at the life and work of one of the founders of British…

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1833 – Mary Shelley’s The Mortal Immortal

March 27, 2019 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

In this episode, you can hear Mary Shelley’s short story, “The Mortal Immortal,” presented in its entirety. This story was…

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1832 – The Invention of Science (and Science Fiction)

March 24, 2019 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

Why do we call Mary Shelley the inventor of science fiction? And why does it matter? We’ll explore those questions…

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Bonus – Eric Molinsky’s Imaginary Worlds

February 26, 2019 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

In our previous episode, I played an excerpt from Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine, in which the hosts discussed…

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Bonus – My Hideous Progeny

February 25, 2019 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

In this episode, I discuss the background of this podcast and play an excerpt from an episode of one of…

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Bonus – Rachel Feder’s Harvester of Hearts

January 28, 2019 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

In this bonus episode, I interview Rachel Feder, the author of Harvester of Hearts: Motherhood under the Sign of Frankenstein.…

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1831 – Revisions

January 18, 2019 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

Frankenstein was revised several times in the early years of its rise to fame–by Percy Shelley, by William Godwin, and,…

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1830 – Mary Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck

December 14, 2018 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

Nobody ever really talks about Mary Shelley’s later novels. There’s a reason for that. Sources: Mary Shelly, The Fortunes of Perkin…

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1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust

December 13, 2018 frankensteins-afterlife Leave a comment

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Werther, is one of the most important texts in the romanticist movement, and…

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