FETISH BOOK CLUB FOR SEPTEMBER

PRESENTS

 FETISH BOOK CLUB 

MONTHLY GROUP FOR READERS THAT LIKE A LITTLE KINK

   THIS MONTH'S SELECTION

 FRANKENSTEIN;
OR,
THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
 BY MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLY

 SEPTEMBER 24TH 

1PM

 $10 COVER

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FRANKENSTEIN; OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

 novel written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 

(1797-1851)

the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18.

 the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London in 1818.

Shelley travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the River Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim (10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where, two centuries before,

 an alchemist was engaged in experiments.

 Later, she travelled in the region of Geneva(Switzerland)—where much of the story takes place—and the topic of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story.

 After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the novel's story.

Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. At the same time, it is an early example of science fiction. 

Since the novel's publication, the name "Frankenstein" has often been used to refer to the monster itself. However in the novel, the monster is identified by words such as "creature", "monster", "demon", "wretch," "abortion," and "it". Speaking to Victor Frankenstein, the wretch refers to himself as "the Adam of your labours", and elsewhere as someone who "would have [been] your Adam", but is instead "your fallen angel" (which ties to Lucifer in Paradise Lost, which the monster reads, 

and relates to the "modern" Prometheus of the book's subtitle).