On January 1st, 1818, Mary Shelley, at age nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. The novel dramatizes the clash of two cultures—the Enlightenment that celebrated reason and science and the Romantic age that celebrated passion and art. https://t.co/Sjs9eW1ku5

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley . #Books #Classic https://t.co/oFyWFGZ2Lt

“In fact, @hannu argued, Frankenstein’s tragic mistake was not creating the monster. Mary Shelley makes this very, very clear: the great mistake was abandoning him.”