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Der #Frankenstein von #MaryShelley als Bezugspunkt des kollektiven Gedächtnisses, gestern und heute. Eine sehr aufschlussreiche Sendung des #SRF

🌀 https://www.srf.ch/audio/geschichte/frankenstein-und-ki-wie-mary-shelley-in-genf-ein-monster-erschuf?id=b539bb9b-a3d8-4eff-9004-b0f426bf176a#autoplay

#FreeTalk! On May 3 from 2-2:30pm Eastern, I'll be giving a #free online talk on #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley. This talk previews my month-long "Meet The Last Man" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity, which is scheduled for June 2025. This is part of the SPACE Showcase day of programming.

Everyone is invited!

Teaser: https://youtu.be/tzV-5T-td38?si=19zzTmQW-W6_w7mG

Info on the May 3 talk: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/events/2025-spring-space-showcase/

#ScienceFiction #Dystopia #EcoGothic #Gothic #SFF #PlagueLit #Books #Bookstodon #OnlineEvent

Pictured (in black and white) is a bust of Mary Shelley with her novel The Last Man and The Mary Shelley Reader anthology from Oxford stacked together in the background.

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Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley: Flucht aus England (German language, 2002, Achilla Presse)

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In den Erinerrungen der Autorin des „Frankenstein“ an ihre Reisen durch Deutschland, Frankreich und die …

📻️⌛️WDR Zeitzeichen: Ein Vulkanausbruch, Schauergeschichten und – das Fahrrad🌋️👻️🚲️

Zehntausende Menschen reißt der Ausbruch des Vulkans Tambora Anfang April 1815 in den Tod. Das folgende Jahr geht nicht nur als „Jahr ohne Sommer“ in die Geschichte ein.

Die Folgen des Vulkanausbruchs 1815 treffen die Welt ungleich: Während Nordamerika, Europa und Russland sich nach den Hungersnöten stabilisieren und langfristig sogar wirtschaftlich und politisch gestärkt aus der Krise hervorgehen, leiden Indien und China noch jahrzehntelang unter den Folgen der Ernteausfälle, Hungersnöte und sozialen Unruhen.

www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-ein-vulkanausbruch-schauergeschichten-und---das-fahrrad-100.html

#WDRZeitzeichen #Zeitzeichen #MaryShelley #Tambora #JahrohneSommer #1816 #Frankenstein

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #feminism #marywollstonecraft #williamgodwin #philosophy #novel #fiction #frankenstein #maryshelley #books #author #writer #journalism @bookstadon

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Amy H. Sturgis 😷 🌻 🖖

To my delight, my month-long "Meet #TheLastMan" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity has been confirmed. It will run in June 2025.

This #MaryShelley novel is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I can't wait to discuss it with students!

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2EcVRnhii0

More info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2011/

#ScienceFiction #Dystopia #EcoGothic #Gothic #SFF #PlagueLit #Books #Bookstodon

Miro Collas

Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals | Mary Shelley | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/19/frankenstein-inspired-by-suicide-of-mary-shelley-half-sister-fanny-imlay-book-reveals

#Literature #Frankenstein #MaryShelley #History

it's kat!

if only i owned a company called 'creature teas', i'd have my branding*.
(pending lawsuits from the estates of mary shelley & boris karloff)
#tea #illustration #maryShelley #borisKarloff #literature #frankenstein

illustration that imagines an advert for a fictional tea company features boris karloff (as frankenstein's creature) enjoying a delicate cup of tea.
colours are moss green & deep cream.

Waywords Studio

𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀: 𝗙𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 -

Here are the best fiction books I read through 2024. Full reviews at waywordsstudio. com.

https://buff.ly/4iDS04i

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #bestof2024 #readreadread #bookreviews2024 #fiction #alanmoore #jerusalem #maryshelley #frankenstein #tonyburgess #iralevin #rosemarysbaby #riverofink #aleksandarhemon #thelazarusproject #thefuture #angiethomas #thehateugive #samuelrdelany #babel17 #tombofsand #martinmacinnes #inascension

Amy H. Sturgis 😷 🌻 🖖

My "Why You Should Read #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley" episode just dropped with The McConnell Center #podcast from the University of Louisville. I'm delighted to have the chance to recommend this brilliant novel.

Here is the link: https://mcconnellcenterpodcast.libsyn.com/why-you-should-read-mary-shelleys-the-last-man-with-dr-amy-sturgis

#PostApocalyptic #ScienceFiction #SFF #Dystopian #Gothic #Books #Bookstodon

Pictured is the Broadview Press edition of Mary Shelley's The Last Man, with cover art that is a black-and-white vintage photo of a well-dressed man walking through the ruins of an ancient building. The book is notated with colored flags visible from the pages, and an extra set of colored flags and a highlighter rest next to the book.

Amy H. Sturgis 😷 🌻 🖖

I've been on a #MaryShelley roll lately! On my latest “Looking Back at Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 747), I revisit the brilliant #Frankenstein.
#ScienceFiction #SFF #Gothic #Horror #Books #Bookstodon

Here is the link!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/starshipsofa-747-donyae-coles/id166360307?i=1000680000637

Pictured are open pages of The New Annotated Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and edited by Leslie S. Klinger. The pages show sepia-toned decorative artwork around the edges and a vintage illustration of Victor Frankenstein fleeing his awakened Creature.

Amy H. Sturgis 😷 🌻 🖖

One of the most relevant works we can read today was written in 1826.

In the video linked below, I make my case for why you should read #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley. (This is part of the "Why You Should Read ___" series from the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville.)

Watch my talk here:
https://youtu.be/_k9pH0dNPVg?si=r87HCo1Rk1kzeJWJ

#SFF #Books #Bookstodon #EcoFiction #Dystopia #PostApocalyptic #ScienceFiction #Gothic #PoliticalFiction

Pictured is a stack of three books, all different editions of The Last Man by Mary Shelley, sitting on a wood bookshelf, spines out.

it's kat!

#art #history: the magnificent boris karloff (born #otd in 1887) embodied mary shelley's creature as no one else has or ever will. why? because he had a great fondness for the character & it's obvious that he understood the emotional fragility & alienation that lay at the core of shelley's baby. that vulnerability is in his eyes. do you see it?
#frankenstein #borisKarloff #maryShelley #cinema #film #literature #horror #illustration

black & white digital pencil & ink drawing of boris karloff on the set of 1931's 'frankenstein', all kitted out as the creature.
in his right hand, he holds a patterned cup which, presumably, contains a liquid of the sort that helped him cope with endless hours in the makeup chair. in his left, a half-devoured slice of toast bears bite marks. he gazes directly at the camera.

digital pencil & ink drawing of boris karloff on the set of 1931's 'frankenstein', all kitted out as the creature.
in his right hand, he holds a patterned cup which, presumably, contains a liquid of the sort that helped him cope with endless hours in the makeup chair. in his left, a half-devoured slice of toast bears bite marks. he gazes directly at the camera.
colours are light acid green, deep acid green, rose, black, cream & light blue.

Waywords Studio

𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻, 𝗢𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘂𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 -

The tremendous 1818 version of the tale, heady and philosophical, its principle horrors gutted by the film versions which followed.

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #maryshelley #frankenstein #themodernprometheus #horror

https://buff.ly/4fLW4NI

Amy H. Sturgis 😷 🌻 🖖

Just in time for #Halloween, here is my new talk for the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville on “Why You Should Read #Frankenstein.”
#MaryShelley #Gothic #Horror #ScienceFiction

https://youtu.be/19gOThR5dZw

A black-and-white photo shows a hardback copy of Frankenstein held up by two carved skulls serving as bookends, one realistic and one embellished with steampunk flourishes.

Waywords Studio

𝟭𝟯 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻: 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 - 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙞𝙣 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆 -

Shelley's classic novel still towers over any film versions, a potently-wound tangle of compassion, regret, and penance.

#halloween #horror #horrorstory #13DaysOfHalloween #books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #frankenstein #themodernprometheus #prometheus #maryshelley #britishhorror #classichorror #religioushorror

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