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The Unexpurgated Mary Shelley
Jan. 5th, 2008 07:12 pmAs mentioned in a previous entry I've finally found the Mary Shelley book for which I've been looking. It is called The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler. It perhaps overreaches its theme of life/art/life in the text of Frankenstein, written when Mary was only 19; but it provided excellent context for the general weirdness of the environment from which Frankenstein emerged. Not only Mary's revolutionary lineage, but the bizarre personalities that surrounded her, and the enormous amount of personal and emotional casualties that resulted from living out idealistic thinking to a ridiculous (some might say 'Byronic' hahaha!) extreme.
( Damned Victorian Expurgators! )
( Find the cost of free love/lay your body down... )
( What key to open the shakles of our own forging? )
And that's about all I have to say now, though I know there will be more in entries to follow along with a lot of jokes I will find immensely funny but nobody else will understand about the 'vindication of the rights' of random people or things, and the Byronic nature of EVERYTHING including crash diets, antimacassars*, and bisexuality--- a term that came into being after Byron's death to describe his appetites, specifically---
( Questions about classical languages... )
* Byron's Byronic curls were not naturally occuring. He was discovered wearing curling papers one night, to which he responded something witty about nature and artifice.... He popularized the wearing of a particular Macassar hair oil, the extensive popularity of which and damage to upholstery it caused created the antimacassar doily found on the backs of chairs, which are still, occasionally, found in fussier decorative movements.
( Damned Victorian Expurgators! )
( Find the cost of free love/lay your body down... )
( What key to open the shakles of our own forging? )
And that's about all I have to say now, though I know there will be more in entries to follow along with a lot of jokes I will find immensely funny but nobody else will understand about the 'vindication of the rights' of random people or things, and the Byronic nature of EVERYTHING including crash diets, antimacassars*, and bisexuality--- a term that came into being after Byron's death to describe his appetites, specifically---
( Questions about classical languages... )
* Byron's Byronic curls were not naturally occuring. He was discovered wearing curling papers one night, to which he responded something witty about nature and artifice.... He popularized the wearing of a particular Macassar hair oil, the extensive popularity of which and damage to upholstery it caused created the antimacassar doily found on the backs of chairs, which are still, occasionally, found in fussier decorative movements.
