... the University, "From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation" (Frankenstein 48). By sending Victor to the University of Ingolstadt, Mary Shelley further signaled his association with the radical politics advocated by Percy Shelley. Ingolstadt was famous as the home of the Illuminati, a secret revolutionary society ... contemporary authors also had an influence on both the novel and the author. In Earl Wasserman's work, "Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading," written in 1965, Wasserm...

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