The Novel
Frankenstein is often considered the first of this type of novel.
What is science fiction?
Shelley was 19-years-old she published Frankenstein anonymously in this year.
What is 1818?
Weather and environment are instrumental to this gothic convention.
What is setting?
The Romantics believed in the importance of this quality over logic.
What is imagination? or What is emotion?
The Frankenstein is consider to be this type of work, as it opens and closes with a series of letters
What is epistolary?
When Shelley was nine, she hid under a sofa to hear Samuel Taylor Coleridge recite this poem, which later influenced her as she developed her ideas for Frankenstein.
What is “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” ?
He was an influential political philosopher and novelist, and Mary Shelley's father.
Who is William Godwin?
This type of character does not convey events truthfully because of their unstable mental state, deceitfulness or immaturity. They seem out of touch and express outrageous ideas.
What is an unreliable narrator?
Romanticism was established contrary to this movement, in which emphasized how man’s reason and logic can improve society
What is the Enlightenment?
Frankenstein is considered a frame novel, and include this number of frames of narration.
What is three?
The conception of novel came to Shelley after a dare proposed by Lord Byron to write the "scariest ghost story" at his estate in this swiss country.
What is Geneva?
Mary's husband died at the age of 29 in this type of accident.
What is drowning?
The inclusion of this convention in a gothic text helps establish the possibility that such things exist beyond human reasoning.
What is the supernatural?
During the Romantic period, this type of journey was taken to find one’s self through nature, isolation, and meditation
What is a Romantic Quest?
The novel begins in this place, with the adventures and narration of Robert Walton.
What is the North Pole?
What is galvanism?
Mary Shelley's mother wrote this work, considered a foundational text in early Western feminist literature.
What is A Vindication to the Right of Women?
This convention is usually described as the feeling of dread and anticipation that precedes/comes before the horrifying experience.
What is terror?
An important writer in American Romantic literature and gothic works; create short stories such as "Fall of the House of Usher" and "Cask of Amontillado"
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
Writing that employs dark scenery, Unique narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of suspense, mystery, and dread that result in high emotion
What is Gothic Literature?
Shelley's early title for the novel included an allusion to this figure of Greek mythology.
Who is Prometheus?
The name of Mary Shelley's husband, also a prominent writer and poet who published works such as "Ozymandius" and "Ode to the West Wind"
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
In classic Gothic literature, women are often portrayed as this archetype.
What is a damsel in distress?
What is nature?
Someone might call Mary's husband this name, because of the drama in his personal life when he and Mary eloped to France.
What is adulterer / cheater