To understand the context of Frankenstein,
check out these links:
Frankenstein the novel
Author Mary Shelley
Gothic fiction
the Romantic movement
Industrial Revolution
Natural Philosophy
Galvanism
Alchemy
Shelley's Allusions:
"The Modern Prometheus" - The Myth of Prometheus (story)
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
