1. Romanticism to the Victorians to Modernism
... writers and philosophers, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley's headway into the literary world was certainly expectable. Shelley's most notable work would be Frankenstein that was inspired by Lord Byron's proposition on writing a ghost story. Shelley's story, though initially just a few pages, modeled into the novel Frankenstein after encouragement and inspiration from her husband, another writer Percy Shelley. Shelley's Frankenstein ... thus his views of modern world, may best be described in his own words "That is no country for old men". While the reader should keep...
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