 | Fred Botting, Dale Townshend - 2004 - 400 Seiten
...time of Walpole on, the gothic novel and the gothic novelist rarely seem to take themselves seriously. "I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination," we read in the 1818 Preface that Mary Shelley's husband wrote for her (267); "Swift as light and as... | |
 | Nita Schechet - 2005 - 164 Seiten
...edition of the novel, he (speaking as she) asserts that "[t]he event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence" (5). Despite this instance of external authorization claimed for the novel by Percy Shelley, the narrators... | |
 | John Woram - 2005 - 462 Seiten
...up as such an authority in the preface to Frankenstein: "The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence." Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818, when she was 19, as her entry in a four-way... | |
 | Stefano Franchi, Güven Güzeldere - 2005 - 558 Seiten
...(actually written by Percy) the opening lines state that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence." 22 Later, in her introduction to the 1831 edition, Mary recalls how she, her husband, and Lord Byron... | |
 | Albert R. Jonsen - 2005 - 218 Seiten
...that he composed for the first edition with the words, "The event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of German, as not of impossible occurrence." This was a moral tale about science and its future achievements.... | |
 | 영미문학연구회 - 2007 - 492 Seiten
...년서둔의 켯 부븐번역에서 찰드러난다 ． The event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the...fancy. I have not considered myself as merely weaving 쯠 series of supernatural terrors. 쯙 he event on which the interest of the story depends is exempt... | |
 | Stephen Bann - 1994 - 228 Seiten
...not escape Percy Shelley. In the 1818 preface he wrote: The event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed by Dr Darwin, and some of the physiological...degree of serious faith to such an imagination; yet [...]I have not considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The event on... | |
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The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. 
