This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, the occasion for
Jill Lepore’s outstanding piece in this week’s
New Yorker:
Frankenstein is four stories in one: an allegory, a . . .
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