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T1 Undeard Monsters of  Romantic Literature " :The origins and genesis of Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre
A1 Portela Martín, Laura
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Frankenstein, vampire, science, folklore, John Polidori, Mary Shelley
K1 vampiro, ciencia
AB It was one of those cold summer nights of 1816 in Lake Geneva that marked the birth oftwo of the great myths that nurture our popular culture: Frankenstein and the vampire. Itwas Byron’s ghost story-telling challenge what awakened the imagination of twostrangers: William Polidori and Mary Shelley. The first with The Vampyre and the secondwith Frankenstein achieved the milestone of having presence to this day, but how didthese monsters take shape? Like any story, it all started before. Much had to do that bothwere born during the Romanticism, considered the time of explosion of the imagination,of the rise of sciences, and of recovery of mythology and folklore. The purpose of thispaper is to show how the romantic ideas, as well as the authors’ personal experiences,were the responsible of the genesis of these creatures, and to reflect through a comparisonthat these monsters are more similar than what people think.
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33415
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33415
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-abr-2024