Mr Mybug HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE!!!!
Reported via one of the lists I'm on:
John Lauritsen's new book, *The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein*, disintegrates the Mary Shelley myth, demonstrating that *Frankenstein* is not just a scary story, but a work of profound and radical ideas.
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- The real author of *Frankenstein* is Percy Bysshe Shelley,
not his second wife, Mary.
- Male love is a central theme of *Frankenstein*.
According to Lauritsen, the theme of romantic male friendship runs from the very beginning to the final page of *Frankenstein*. Sometimes the expressions of male love are remarkably direct, but at other times they are expressed in coded language or references known only to the "initiated".
Which makes me think of radical new interpretation of Frankenstein: claiming Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley as an ur-slasher.
John Lauritsen's new book, *The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein*, disintegrates the Mary Shelley myth, demonstrating that *Frankenstein* is not just a scary story, but a work of profound and radical ideas.
....
- The real author of *Frankenstein* is Percy Bysshe Shelley,
not his second wife, Mary.
- Male love is a central theme of *Frankenstein*.
According to Lauritsen, the theme of romantic male friendship runs from the very beginning to the final page of *Frankenstein*. Sometimes the expressions of male love are remarkably direct, but at other times they are expressed in coded language or references known only to the "initiated".
Which makes me think of radical new interpretation of Frankenstein: claiming Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley as an ur-slasher.