Mary Shelley, Interlacement of Enlightenment and Romanticism
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https://doi.org/10.14422/pen.v76.i292.y2020.005Keywords:
science, feminism, Enlightenment, RomanticismAbstract
Frankenstein, the novel of Mary Shelley, is a main work for to find the links between two central periods of Modernity: Enlightenment and Romanticism. We can to do both an enlightened interpretation of the novel and a romantic interpretation. In this paper I will show how It´s possible interweave enlightened and romantic ideas. I will achieve my goal by analyzing the meaning of two central ideas. Both ideas make up Mary Shelley´s work. I refer to the idea of Science and Femininity.
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