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The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts how--at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution--Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death.
With true-life tales of grave robbers, ghoulish experiments, and the ultimate in macabre research--human reanimation--The Lady and Her Monsters is a brilliant exploration of the creation of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's horror classic.
Book Details
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company
- Publish Date: Oct 22nd, 2013
- Pages: 336
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.90in - 0.65lb
- EAN: 9780062025838
- Categories: • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Modern - 19th Century• Anatomy
About the Author
Roseanne Montillo holds an MFA from Emerson College in Massachusetts, where she teaches as a professor of literature. She is the author of The Lady and Her Monsters.
Praise for this book
"Her narrative... rattles enjoyably through a lurid and restless landscape. ... Equally a literary and a scientific endeavor." -- Wall Street Journal
"Montillo achieves a freshness through her lively narrative approach and a fascination with long-ago science and its ethics that sparks across the pages." -- New York Times Book Review
"Enthusiatic prose... A Spirited investigation of the bizarre times that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." -- Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)
"A delicious and enticing journey into the origins of a masterpiece." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"With a flair for both drama and detail, Montillo breathes her own kind of life into the story of the men determined to discover its very elements." -- Discover Magazine
"Spills the dirt on the making of the 19th-century novel--affairs, family drama, a lake house with Lord Byron!--and paints a grimly fascinating picture of the dissections and experiments in "animal electricity" that inspired the gothic tale." -- Mental Floss
"Montillo's book is a welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story." -- The Commercial Dispatch
"A welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story." -- The Lady and Her Monsters
"Montillo never loses sight of the fact that it was Mary Shelley's imagination that sewed the pieces together - and provided the vital spark that keeps the tale alive nearly two centuries on." -- New Scientist
"A haunting picture of an era in which science and the arts overlapped, a perfect storm in which inspiration for "Frankenstein" could strike. Like a bolt of lightning." -- Washington Post