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" The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Pagina 334
1818
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Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pagini
...FOR G. AND WB WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE. 1823. PREFACE. THE event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the...work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely a3 weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The event on which the interest of the story depends is...
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Periodical Criticism, Volumul 2

Walter Scott - 1835 - 420 pagini
...Sheltey, daughter of Mr Godwin and Mrs Mary Woolstonecroft. See her Preface to the last ' edition.] Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall...imagination ; yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancv, I have not considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The event,...
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The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: Biographical memoirs of ...

Walter Scott - 1838 - 1198 pagini
...to describe. " The event' on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Durwin, and gome of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of...remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination yr I . in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving...
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Miscellaneous Prose Works, Volumul 18

Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pagini
...Frankenstein ia Mrs Shelley, daughter of Mr Godwin aud Mrs Mary WoolstonecrofU See her Preface to the latt Germany) as not of impossible occurrence. I shall...yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, 1 have not considered myself as merely wearing a series of supernatural terrors. The event, on which...
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pagini
...IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. " ''I ''HE event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the...impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as recording the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination ; yet, in assuming it as the...
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One Culture: Essays in Science and Literature

George Lewis Levine, Alan Rauch - 1987 - 372 pagini
...referred in his Preface to Frankenstein when he insisted that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin and some of the physiological...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence" (F, p. 6). Even though Erasmus Darwin never fully endorsed the revolutionary theory of Galvani and...
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Biofictions: The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama

Martin Middeke, Werner Huber - 1999 - 248 pagini
...remark that this fiction has a possible factual basis: "The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrance."32 It is only after his literary context has been established that Marlowe begins his own...
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Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts, Volumul 1

Ronald Chrisley, Sander Begeer - 2000 - 550 pagini
...(actually written by Percy) the opening lines state that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence."" Later, in her introduction to the 1831 edition, Mary recalls how she, her husband, and Lord Byron discussed...
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Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and ...

Gillian Beer - 2000 - 316 pagini
...acknowledges Erasmus Darwin in the opening of her 1817 preface: 'The event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not ofimpossible occurrence.' 1 1 In Aspects of Form, ed. Lancelot Law Whyte (London, 1968): 41. 12 Ernst...
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The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India

Martine van Wœrkens - 2002 - 392 pagini
...Shelley established between the possible and the credible. "The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr Darwin and some of the physiological...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence," she wrote in her preface. The father of the theoretician of evolution looked positively upon her fable...
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