![]() ![]() It has inspired film adaptations across genres, from the comedy caper Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein to the quasi-rock opera The Rocky Horror Picture Show and sci-fi classics such as Blade Runner. Two hundred years after its publication in January 1818, it still speaks to us directly as a myth about contemporary life. ![]() Yet Mary’s Frankenstein comes out of just the same heady cultural and political nexus as her husband’s verse, and her novel has continued to fascinate us. Percy was above all a creature of his own cultural moment, and nothing dates like a zeitgeist. Back in 2011, I found myself trying to make sense of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry. ![]() I became fascinated by Mary Shelley and her most famous novel because of her husband. ![]()
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