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1818 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley publishes her master-
piece of speculative fi ction on the transformation of human
nature in times of intellectual and social experimentation,
Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. This most
famous of gothic novels engages the themes of Rousseau,
Godwin, and Wollstonecraft’s philosophies against the
backdrop of the post-revolutionary political landscape.