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Frankenstein Teaching Series Video Two: Science and Knowledge

The Restless Classics 200th Anniversary edition of FRANKENSTEIN: OR, THE MODERN PROMETHEUS (restlessbooks.com/bookstore/frankenstein), by Mary Shelley, comes with a new introduction by renowned author and critic Francine Prose and a free online video lecture series taught by Penn professor of English Wendy Steiner. The towering masterpiece of gothic fiction that spawned the horror and science-fiction genres is the most recent installment of Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Each Restless Classic is beautifully designed with original artwork, a new introduction for the trade audience, and an online video teaching series led by passionate experts. Learn more at: restlessbooks.com/classics Written in the early 19th century at the height of Romanticism, Frankenstein is set in the late 18th century a the height of The Enlightenment, and has a lot to say about the nature of knowledge and science. The Enlightenment was the beginning of modern science as we know it: the rejection of authority for its own sake in favor of eyewitness investigation, logic, and reason; the individual as the seeker after truth, as opposed to institutions defining what truth is. Yet, the fear of the individual’s search for truth—and striving beyond human bounds—is deeply embedded in Western culture. For example, the myth of Icarus, who, given wings, flew too close to the sun. The myth that Mary Shelley adapted into Frankenstein, however was that of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods for the betterment of humanity, and was doomed to eternal torture as a result. Like Prometheus, as signaled in the subtitle to Frankenstein, Dr. Frankenstein also seeks knowledge in order to better the human race, with disastrous results.