'Frankenstein' scholar focus of lecture at USD
Posted: Monday, September 01, 2008
VERMILLION, S.D. -- Anne Mellor, distinguished professor of English at the University of California Los Angeles, will deliver the 2008 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Al Neuharth Media Center at the University of South Dakota.
Mellor’s illustrated lecture, "Mothering Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein," analyzes the biographical origins of Shelley’s famous novel, focusing on how and why an 18-year-old author came to produce one of the most enduring myths of the modern age.
Frankenstein is a powerful critique of both the science and the politics of the revolutionary 1790s and offers a compelling alternative to the Promethean ideologies of Shelley’s peers.
After teaching at Stanford for 18 years, Mellor joined the UCLA faculty in 1984. She is the author of "Blake’s Human Form Divine," "English Romantic Irony," "Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters," "Romanticism and Gender" and "Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780-1830."
Mellor’s illustrated lecture, "Mothering Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein," analyzes the biographical origins of Shelley’s famous novel, focusing on how and why an 18-year-old author came to produce one of the most enduring myths of the modern age.
Frankenstein is a powerful critique of both the science and the politics of the revolutionary 1790s and offers a compelling alternative to the Promethean ideologies of Shelley’s peers.
After teaching at Stanford for 18 years, Mellor joined the UCLA faculty in 1984. She is the author of "Blake’s Human Form Divine," "English Romantic Irony," "Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters," "Romanticism and Gender" and "Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780-1830."
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