WorkMary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein

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Documented 1846

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

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American Literature.

“American Literature.”

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“Without such ideas all attempts to construct a national literature must end in abortions like the monster of Frankenstein, things with forms, and the Instincts of forms, but soulless, and therefore revolting.”

Fuller, Margaret. "American Literature." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1846. · 23 September 1846