krazyklassykat

I'm reading Frankenstein for school, and, surprisingly, I really like it. Well, I like the ideas Shelley had in mind when writing it, anyway. I'm considering using the theme of dangerous knowledge in my own novel now.
Anyway, I was reading some outside material, and I came across this:

I was wondering, is this the first time this idea was explored in fiction? I was thinking of Inferi, in the Harry Potter series. But if the idea of galvanism was just coming about at the time Shelley wrote Frankenstein, was it indeed the first novel about scientifically re-animated corpses?

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Mike C

There were various predecessors dealing with chimera (chimerae?), composite type creatures, but I believe Shelley's book was the first to use science to reanimate a man made from spare parts. In fact it's generally reckoned to be the first SF novel ever; not bad, considering she was about 19 when she wrote it.

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krazyklassykat

Wow. That is pretty monumental for a 19-year-old....

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red lantern

Adam Crowley an English biologist/bio chemist/alchemist who thought to make creatures and people out of leftover bits and pieces.

Dr Lyza Kaulderwalsh was a scientist who believed that by figuring out how certain lizards (skink family) regrew their tails one could apply this to humans to regrow lost appendages. She ended up in the rubber room after she took children off the streets and hacked off their fingers (and in the case of the boys something far more important!) and then tried to regrow them

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sources please?

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sputnik_15

if you dont mind me asking,

is it also the one about the movie "frankenstein of geniva" (or something of that spelling)?

because we watched the movie for my college history. and we have to write why it was considered a romantic movie/story.

i dont know if thats what you have to do to

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