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Shelley unbound : discovering Frankenstein's true creator / by Scott Douglas de Hart; foreward by Joseph P. Farrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Hart, Scott D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft.
- Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. Frankenstein.
- Physical Description:
- 183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, WA : Feral House, [2013]
- Summary:
- In Shelley Unbound, Scott D. de Hart explores the life of the radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to unlock the meaning and motives behind Frankenstein. After we learn of Percy Shelley's mirror-imaged characters-Victor Frankenstein the alchemist creator, Robert Walton the explorer in search of companionship, and the godforsaken creature of Ingolstadt-we will never read Frankenstein the same way. Dr. de Hart's scholarly research will lead the reader to the inescapable conclusion that-Frankenstein is nothing less than a fictionalized autobiography of Percy Bysshe Shelley and that in Frankenstein, the true author, Percy Shelley has set forward his revolutionary goal for a new enlightened and godless society. Why was the original Frankenstein novel uncredited? Read the author's political and revolutionary writings..., What was Percy Shelley's connection to The Illuminati? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 27
- The Problem with Prefaces 27
- Initial Observations 27
- The Problem with the Prefaces 30
- 1818 Preface 30
- Erasmus Darwin 31
- German Physiologists 32
- 1831 Preface-Mary The Deceiver or the Co-Conspirator? 47
- Chapter 2 57
- Shelley, the Alchemist 57
- The Young Alchemist 59
- Frankenstein and Shelley the Alchemist 61
- A Shocking Experience 67
- Adam Walker 69
- James Lind 72
- Postscript 76
- Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude 76
- Chapter 3 79
- Percy Shelley, Frankenstein, and Atheism 79
- An Atheist and Anglican Priest 80
- An Atheist Queen (MAB) 84
- Pre-Frankenstein Atheistic and Alchemistic Fiction 85
- Prometheus and Stealing God's Fire: Shelley's Atheism Takes Shape 86
- A Digression: Shelley's Words, Mary's Hand 87
- The Hidden Atheism in Frankenstein 89
- Shelley Encounters The Devil 93
- The Second Coming of the Tan-Yr-Allt Devil 95
- Chapter 4 99
- Shelley: The Anonymous Illuminatist 99
- Misdirection and Disguises 99
- Anonymity: Shelley's Signature 102
- Letters to Armageddon Heroes 105
- The Epipsychidion 107
- Additional Examples of a Hidden Author 111
- False Addresses and Handwriting Styles 114
- The Bavarian Illuminati 115
- Ingolstadt, the Illuminati, and Frankenstein 115
- Shelley and Secret Societies before Frankenstein 116
- Barruel, Weishaupt, and Shelley the Illuminati Agenda in Frankenstein 120
- Chapter 5 127
- The Sensitive Shelley and Platonic Love in Frankenstein 127
- Shelley, the Sensitive Plant 128
- The Sensitive Plant in Frankenstein 129
- Hermaphrodites, Monsters, and Shelley 135
- Plato's Symposium, Shelley, and Frankenstein 137
- Alastor and Frankenstein 139
- Shelley, on Love 141.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Also available online: De Hart, Scott D. Shelley Unbound.
- ISBN:
- 1936239604
- 9781936239603
- OCLC:
- 812258494
- Publisher Number:
- 99955393921
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