The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein Ruston Sharon
The first book to compile the historical scientific and medical thought that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley. But how…
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The first book to compile the historical scientific and medical thought that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.What is life? This was a question of particular concern for Mary Shelley. But how did Shelley and her fellow Romantic writers incorporate this debate into their work, and how much were they influenced by contemporary science and medicine?The Science of Life and Death in Frankenstein is the first book to synthesize the scientific and medical thinking about life and death during Mary Shelley's lifetime. Sharon Ruston explores the contemporary scientific basis behind Victor Frankenstein's idea that life and death were merely 'ideal bounds' he could transgress in the making of the Creature. Ruston contextualizes the novel alongside the work of the key scientific and medical thinkers of the day, including John Abernethy, James Curry, Humphry