Genre-Defining Victorian Novels: Frankenstein and Brave New World
Mary Shelley set out to write a ghost story in 1818, but what she produced is one of the most famous gothic novels in English Literature, ‘Frankenstein’. Shelley read several literary classics with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and these influenced her novel. She references these works in the novel, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses … Read more