Against the odds, by concentrating on its author, Anne Eekhout’s new novel, "Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein" (translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson), makes Mary Shelley’s life story more involving than most revisited novels based on classics.
How did Frankenstein become such an important literary work in the history of science and technology?The story of Frankenstein is a product of its time, a period marked by revolutionary scientific discoveries and a frenzy of technological innovation that swept the country. Shelley's novel, published in 1818, tapped into the scientific zeitgeist, combining the Enlightenment's