The Romantics: everything you wanted to know
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Frankenstein
Shelley famously started writing Frankenstein after a stormy night by the shores of Lake Geneva in which everyone who was President Shelley and Byron decided to tell ghost stories. She doesn't really want to be bothered with telling you how it just sort of happens. But it's much more interested in the consequences of creating something which speaks to the scale of the human imagination but then becomes terrifying. So it's really about the potential of thehuman imagination to create something extraordinary and then to lose control of it, she says.
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