Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece
Description
Description
The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts how--at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution--Shelley's Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death.
With true-life tales of grave robbers, ghoulish experiments, and the ultimate in macabre research--human reanimation--The Lady and Her Monsters is a brilliant exploration of the creation of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's horror classic.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Enthusiatic prose... A Spirited investigation of the bizarre times that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein." - Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)
"With a flair for both drama and detail, Montillo breathes her own kind of life into the story of the men determined to discover its very elements." - Discover Magazine
"Spills the dirt on the making of the 19th-century novel--affairs, family drama, a lake house with Lord Byron!--and paints a grimly fascinating picture of the dissections and experiments in "animal electricity" that inspired the gothic tale." - Mental Floss
"Montillo's book is a welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story." - The Commercial Dispatch
"A welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story." - The Lady and Her Monsters
"A haunting picture of an era in which science and the arts overlapped, a perfect storm in which inspiration for "Frankenstein" could strike. Like a bolt of lightning." - Washington Post
"Her narrative... rattles enjoyably through a lurid and restless landscape. ... Equally a literary and a scientific endeavor." - Wall Street Journal
"A delicious and enticing journey into the origins of a masterpiece." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Montillo achieves a freshness through her lively narrative approach and a fascination with long-ago science and its ethics that sparks across the pages." - New York Times Book Review
"Montillo never loses sight of the fact that it was Mary Shelley's imagination that sewed the pieces together - and provided the vital spark that keeps the tale alive nearly two centuries on." - New Scientist
"With a flair for both drama and detail, Montillo breathes her own kind of life into the story of the men determined to discover its very elements." - Discover Magazine
"Spills the dirt on the making of the 19th-century novel--affairs, family drama, a lake house with Lord Byron!--and paints a grimly fascinating picture of the dissections and experiments in "animal electricity" that inspired the gothic tale." - Mental Floss
"Montillo's book is a welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story." - The Commercial Dispatch
"A welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story." - The Lady and Her Monsters
"A haunting picture of an era in which science and the arts overlapped, a perfect storm in which inspiration for "Frankenstein" could strike. Like a bolt of lightning." - Washington Post
"Her narrative... rattles enjoyably through a lurid and restless landscape. ... Equally a literary and a scientific endeavor." - Wall Street Journal
"A delicious and enticing journey into the origins of a masterpiece." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Montillo achieves a freshness through her lively narrative approach and a fascination with long-ago science and its ethics that sparks across the pages." - New York Times Book Review
"Montillo never loses sight of the fact that it was Mary Shelley's imagination that sewed the pieces together - and provided the vital spark that keeps the tale alive nearly two centuries on." - New Scientist
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
William Morrow & Company
Pub date:
2013-10-22
Length:
336 pages
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