scholarly journals Cânone e mercado editorial: uma reflexão sobre a vitalidade de Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Eliane Aparecida Galvão Ribeiro Ferreira ◽  
Guilherme Magri da Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ◽  
Gerard Genette

Este artigo tem como propósito apresentar ao leitor uma possibilidade de análise do romance Frankenstein ou o Prometeu Moderno (1818), de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), tendo como foco os paratextos da edição publicada pela DarkSide em 2017, traduzida por Márcia Xavier de Brito. Justifica-se a escolha dessa edição, pois eleita, em 2019, como atraente pelos alunos do primeiro ano do curso de Letras da Universidade Estadual Paulista – UNESP, Câmpus de Assis-SP. Na análise da obra de Shelley, busca-se, a partir do aporte teórico da Estética da Recepção (JAUSS, 1994; ISER, 1996 e 1999), refletir sobre sua vitalidade, enquanto marco no cânone ocidental, pois se configurou, conforme José Paulo Paes (1985), como primeiro romance de ficção científica. Na análise dos paratextos da edição da DarkSide (SHELLEY, 2017), pretende-se detectar, em consonância com Roger Chartier (2014) e Gerard Genette (2009), se modificam a relação do leitor com o material escrito.  

scholarly journals El texto de terror en la novella Española del siglo XIX: espacios de circulación del poder*

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
César De Vicente Hernando
Keyword(s):  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
Sobre Todo

Una cita de El paraíso perdido de Milton abre la obra de la escritora inglesa Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein (1818). lnglaterra prácticamente convertida en la primera potencia comercio-industrial en los incios de lo que se define como la "Revolución Industrial", traerá, como es sabido, ala escena social un modo de producción radicalmente distinto alde siglos pasados y, sobre todo, la construcción social de categorías nuevas y una quiebra-fractura en las mentalidades. En un pró1ogo para su novela, Mary Shelley explicaba qué cosa era su Frankenstein (lo que constituye la base de lo que malamente se ha llamado "gothic Tale"): Una historia que hablase a los miedos misterisos de nuestra naturaleza y despertase un horror estremecedor; una historia que hiciese· mirar en torno suyo al lector amedentrado, le helase la sangre y le acelerase los latidos. del corazón.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Lord Byron ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
William Godwin ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ghost Stories ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ◽  
Story Writing

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley conceived of the central idea for Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus—most often referred to simply as Frankenstein—during the summer of 1816 while vacationing on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. It is her first and most famous novel. Although the assertion is debatable, some scholars have argued that Frankenstein is the first work of modern science fiction. Shelley was inspired to write Frankenstein in response to a “ghost story” writing contest between herself, Percy Shelley, Percy Shelley’s physician and friend John Polidori, and Lord Byron, who were trapped indoors reading German ghost stories as the result of inclement weather. Polidori’s contribution to this contest, “The Vampyre: A Tale” (1819), influenced the development of Gothic literature. According to Shelley, she drew inspiration from a nightmare she had, which she attributed to discussions she overheard between Percy and Byron regarding experiments with electricity and animation. Shelley began working on the novel when she returned home to England in September, and the book’s first edition was published anonymously in 1818. Shelley’s father William Godwin made minor revisions for a second edition in 1821; and Shelley herself made more substantial changes for the third edition in 1831. The story is told through an epistolary frame, and follows Victor Frankenstein, a university student of the “unhallowed arts” who assembles, animates, and abandons an unnamed human-like creature. The creature goes on to haunt his creator both literally and metaphorically. Over the past two hundred years, the story has been widely influential, and re-interpreted in various forms of culture and media. In literary studies, scholars have discussed which edition of the text is the “truest” to Mary Shelley’s intended vision. The novel has been analyzed for its messages about human pride and hubris, the pursuit of knowledge, the nature/nurture question, as put forth by Rousseau, ethical questions in medicine and science, and family, gender, and reproduction, among other topics.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Manuel Barcia
Keyword(s):  
Mary Wollstonecraft ◽  
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ◽  
The Mind

Of what strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen to the rock. —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (uncensored 1818 edition) ON FEBRUARY 22, 1841, Dr. Thomas Nelson boarded a vessel that had just been escorted into the harbor of Guanabara by HMS ...

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