Mary Shelly, Frankenstein (Penguin Classics Reissue edition)

Be sure that you read the editor's introduction and the "Author's Introduction" by Shelly.

When you read the novel itself, be sure to look for:

A. Evidence of  the influence on of late Enlightenment rationalism both on Shelly's characters and on her outlook as author

B. Evidence of  the influence on of Romanticism both on Shelly's characters and on her outlook as author

C. The arguments that Shelly seems to be making about the limits of scientific approaches to human nature

D. The arguments that Shelly seems to be making about the nature of individual liberty

E. The arguments that Shelly seems to be making about the relationship between the individual and the community. 

n addition, I will ask you as individuals to discuss passages in the novel that deal with images of 

• human creativity and creation 

• the relationship between humans and nature

• the role of emotions in making humans "human"

• the benefits and dangers of industry and science

• Europe's/England's place in the world