Composing what may not be "sad trash": a reconsideration of Mary Shelley's use of Paracelsus in Frankenstein.(Critical Essay)

Studies in Romanticism | March 22, 2004| | Copyright

THOSE WHO HAVE ADDRESSED THE SIGNIFICANCE OF VICTOR FRANKENstein's reading in Albertus Magnus (c. 1200-1280); Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535); and Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better and more conveniently known as Paracelsus (1493-1541), have typically downplayed the importance of that reading. Of Victor, Samuel Holmes Vasbinder observes, "He clearly rejects the works of Albertus Magnus, Paracelsus, and Agrippa in favor of men who wrote and experimented with the new science" (1) Anne K. Mellor takes note of Victor's "misguided and self-taught ...

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