Editorial illustrations for Western News' celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein, offering insights from faculty across disciplines.
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A tale born out of a ghost-story competition between Mary Shelley, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and English poet Lord Byron, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus has exceeded 300 editions and inspired more than 90 films – in addition to hundreds of academic texts and comic books – over the past two centuries.
The book was first published anonymously in January 1818 and continues to be cited today in conversations concerning scientific progress, ethics and human vanity. The ‘Frankenstein effect’ evokes the spectre of mad science, bad science or science gone wrong; Frankenstein still haunts us today and the term has come to be associated with questionable advances in genetics and artificial intelligence, with Dr. Frankenstein’s monster often cited as an example of consequence when humankind, by way of science, goes too far.
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