“For her part, in creating Frankenstein out of the flotsam and jetsam of her years with Shelley and the ideas he attempted to forge into a coherent revolutionary system, Mary Shelley created the myth of our epoch—an epoch roughly coterminous with the Enlightenment. Indeed, one of the indications that the epoch is with us still is the fact that the Frankenstein story continues to be retold. And it will continue to be retold as long as the Enlightenment, with its penchant for manipulating humans according to the laws of ‘nature,’ continues to hold its sway.”
Michael E. Jones, Monsters from the Id: The Rise of Horror in Fiction and Film, pg. 94
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