⟦ Announcing Frankenstein Fridays! ⟧

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Hello and welcome to Frankenstein Fridays !!!!

Frankenstein Fridays is a weekly Substack mailing list, set on delivering one chapter* of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) to your inbox every Friday!

Basically: you know Dracula Daily? This is kind of like that, except with Frankenstein. It would be in the daily style of DD, except Frankenstein spans multiple years, not months.

Mailing will begin on Friday September 6th and end on Friday March 7th (if all goes according to plan). You can sign up any time, though.

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Also, if you are so kind as to want to design a logo for FF, feel free to submit it in an ask!! ❤️❤️

(* or sections of one chapter, depending on length. The first section, for example, is Letters I, II, & III.)

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frankingsteinery

3 months ago

as i was reading the 1818 annotated text of mary shelley’s frankenstein, i noticed that one of my favorite lines, “Clerval was a being formed in the very poetry of nature”, had an annotation by Shelley connecting it to The Story Of Rimini by Leigh Hunt.

i obviously checked it out, and found out that that line was describing PAOLO from dante’s inferno… as in paolo and francesca… THE star-crossed lovers… francesca was in an arranged marriage (familiar?) and sinned by falling in love with paolo… and theyre together in hell and regret nothing…

i’m actually weeping over this being a canon parallel. go stream francesca by hozier one billion times

As I Was Reading The 1818 Annotated Text Of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I Noticed That One Of My Favorite

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frankingsteinery

6 months ago

Regency era couples exchanged a wide range of romantic gifts while courting. “The vast majority were given by men,” says Holloway. “Women did give gifts, but the onus was not so much on them to do so. When they did, they gave distinct types of objects—perhaps ruffles or waistcoats they’d made by hand, or a handkerchief embroidered with their hair and their suitor’s hair, literally combining two bodies in a single item.” Men might give a lady specially mixed perfume, miniatures, a silhouette, or book with passages underlined,” says Holloway. “He might present a book saying, ‘Look what I’ve underlined on page 42. Do you agree?’ which was a way to test whether they were literally on the same page.”

A courtship’s progress could be tracked through the particular object given. “A lock of hair was one of the more symbolically important gifts because it was literally cut from the body,” says Holloway. Other gifts worn against a woman’s body were also intensely romantic—or even racy. “Gloves were symbolic of obtaining a woman’s hand in marriage,” says Holloway. “Garters was the most erotic gift a man might purchase for a woman—extremely intimate because they held up her stockings. Worn inside her dress, the garters often had messages embroidered on them like, ‘I die where I cling.’ They were very suggestive.”

oh my god. og my god. the symbolism of it all

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frankingsteinery

1 year ago

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frankingsteinery

7 months ago

For all people who write fanfiction of frankenstien

thornber.net

Eight Sites by Craig Thornber

This will help so much I’m not even joking. Specifically the medical terminology section

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reblog frankenstein very useful—thank you!

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frankingsteinery

1 year ago

For the last time: Mary Shelley and Lord Byron were friends. She didn't hate him. His death was a very painful loss to her. She didn't write Frankenstein because she was stuck in a house with him and he was an unbearable person. For God's sake, just read her journals and letters.

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frankingsteinery

7 months ago

Feeling some kind of way about these passages from one of the books I've been consulting for my project on melancholia, which was written by Johann Freitag, who lived from 1587-1654.

In it, Freitag (who was a doctor) talks about how difficult it is to cure melancholy, and how patients often grow depressed, suspicious, and angry over the fact that their symptoms persist for months, years, or even their whole lives. He also describes melancholy as an "insolent guest, who doesn't obey the guest-rules" -- a description I absolutely love, in part because it sounds an awful lot like the way my friends and I talk about our own mental illnesses today.

The whole section just feels so true to my own experiences with mental illness (particularly fairly treatment-resistant mental illness), hundreds of years later. It's exactly why I chose this topic for my research project, and really incredible to me.

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frankingsteinery

1 year ago