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Geografie mostruose: Frankenstein, il ghiaccio e il vulcano (2022)

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This contribution focuses on the relationship between the eruption of the Tambora volcano in April 1815, with the exceptional climatic consequences it generated, and the composition of the novel by Mary Shelley. The myth of Frankenstein, on the one hand, is closely connected to ice and mountains, fitting into the dimension of the sublime, and on the other to electricity and fire. The narration ends with the image of a large funeral pyre, emblem of the monster's death and its reunion with the figure of the creator, which evokes a volcanic eruption.

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Authors & Contributors
Belli, Gabriella
Bertonèche, Caroline
Dean, Dennis R.
Giacomoni, Paola
Holmes, Richard
Lamberini, Daniela
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the History of Science
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Science and Education
Publishers
Mimesis
Olschki
Pantheon Books
Princeton University Press
Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints
Skira
Concepts
Science and literature
Earth sciences
Volcanoes and volcanology
Geography
Science and art
Romanticism
People
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Austen, Jane
Banks, Joseph
Blake, William
Davy, Humphry
Freud, Sigmund
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
20th century
Medieval
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Great Britain
Italy
Caribbean
Russia
Scotland
Pompeii (Italy)
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