Book ID: CBB000008134

The man who was Frankenstein (1979)

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Haining, Peter (Author)


Müller


Publication Date: 1979
Physical Details: 166 pp.; illus.

Description Argues that the English scientist Andrew Crosse was the inspiration for Victor Frankenstein.


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Authors & Contributors
Finn, Ed
Micheletti, Silvia
Choo, Jae-uk
Vasbinder, Samuel Holmes
Turney, Jon
Tuite, Clara
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Public Understanding of Science
Korean Journal of Medical History
IEE Proc. A
History of European Ideas
ELH: English Literary History
Publishers
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
UMI Research Press
The MIT Press
St. Martin's Press
Reaktion Books
Ashgate
Concepts
Science
Science and literature
Science fiction
Medicine and literature
Sublime (philosophy)
Frankenstein
People
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Wells, Herbert George
Crosse, Andrew
Kingsley, Charles
Jentsch, Ernst Anton
Mori, Masahiro
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
21st century
Places
British Isles
Europe
Great Britain
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