
Shelley Unbound
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Frankenstein was first released in 1818 anonymously.
The credit for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's authorship first occurred in 1823 when a French edition was published. A year earlier, Mary's revolutionary husband, the influential poet, dramatist, novelist, and essayist Percy Bysshe Shelley, died.
The same year Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus (its full title) was first published, so was another work by Mary's husband that shares use of the word Prometheus. The drama Prometheus Unbound was indeed credited to Percy Shelley.
The secret admission of many experts in English literature is that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley did not write a good portion of Frankenstein. In Shelley Unbound, Oxford scholar Scott D. de Hart examines the critical information about Percy Shelley's scientific avocations, his disputes against church and state, and his connection to the illegal and infamous anti-Catholic organization, the Illuminati.
Scott D. de Hart's fascinating investigation into Frankenstein and the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Percy Shelley results in an inconvenient truth regarding what we have long believed to be a great early example of the feminist canon.
Scott D. de Hart was born and raised in Southern California. He graduated from Oxford University with a PhD specializing in nineteenth-century English literature and legal controversies.
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction: Percy Unbound
- 1. THE PROBLEM WITH PREFACES
- Initial Observations
- The Problem with the Prefaces: 1818 Preface
- Erasmus Darwin
- German Physiologists
- 1831 Preface - Mary the Deceiver or the Co-Conspirator?
- 2. SHELLEY, THE ALCHEMIST
- The Young Alchemist
- Frankenstein and Shelley the Alchemist
- A Shocking Experience
- Adam Walker
- James Lind
- Postscript
- 3. PERCY SHELLEY, FRANKENSTEIN, AND ATHEISM
- An Atheist and an Anglican Priest
- An Atheist Queen (Mab)
- Pre-Frankenstein Atheistic and Alchemistic Fiction
- Prometheus and Stealing God's Fire: Shelley's Atheism Takes Shape
- A Digression: Shelley's Words, Mary's Hand
- The Hidden Atheism in Frankenstein
- Shelley Encounters the Devil
- The Second Coming of the Tan=Yr-Allt Devil
- 4. SHELLEY: THE ANONYMOUS ILLUMINATIST
- Misdirection and Disguises
- Anonymity: Shelley's Signature
- Letters to Armageddon Heroes
- Further Examples of a Hidden Author
- False Addresses and Changing Handwriting
- The Bavarian Illuminati
- Ingolstadt, the Illuminati, and Frankenstein
- Shelley and Secret Societies Before Frankenstein
- Barruel, Weishaupt, and Shelley
- The Illuminati Agenda in Frankenstein
- 5. THE SENSITIVE SHELLEY AND FRANKENSTEIN
- Shelley, the Sensitive Plant
- The Sensitive Plant in Frankenstein
- Hermaphrodites, Monsters, and Shelley
- Plato's Symposium, Shelley, and Frankenstein
- Alastor and Frankenstein
- Shelley, On Love
- Conclusion: A Restatement of the Facts
- Recommended Resources
- Appendix A: Preface to the 1818 Edition of Frankenstein and Preface to the 1831 Edition of Frankenstein
- Appendix B: Ghasta, or the Avenging Demon
- Index
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