This is the clearest lecture I have ever heard on Frankenstein- it's extremely insightful and Professor Mellor is extremely well spoken. This has been a (very engaging) lifesaver for my study on Frankenstein.
An incredible lecture! Wonderful arguments brought to vivid life by the chosen textual citations. So much more thought-provoking than the usual surface "w-w-we gotta be careful of new technology!" reading. An idea that struck me from the professor's illustration of Mary Shelley's "Greece had not been enslaved..." was Victor's friend Henry Clerval, who is described as aspiring to join with Englishmen in the colonization/profiteering of the British territories in India; and who (because of this?), Shelley dooms to death in the narrative.
Anne K. Mellor truly has a marvelous insight on the creation of the Monster. How Mary Shelley builds up the Creature, how it comes into being, what makes Victor Frankenstein rejects his own Creation in recoil, and so forth. All these questions raised by readers are well-explained in Mellor's seminal publication. Lots of respect to her as a scholar!
When I was doing my a level on this I didn’t have the time to go through all of it, it’s been half a year, so glad I finally had the time to enjoy it peacefully
wow, that was very lengthy, but definitely worth it. I absolutely loved all the social context she explained and how it influenced Mary Shelley's masterpiece.
That was brilliant. Thanks. While some of the male psychology elements were a stretch for me, I find it enlightening and a very solid argument situating it in the events of the time. Really enjoyed it 👍
Thank you so much for making this public, and thank you Anne Mellor for your extremely thoughtful analysis of this great work. You’ve certainly given this piece of literature the love and care that the creature so longed for!
I am totally amused by who Mary Shelly was...how much pain she endured in her life ....and that pain came out as a novel Frankenstein. And Professor Anne gives us such a deep insight about her novel , in a crisp and simple manner.
In my opinion this lecture which I have enjoyed and listened to several times is very relevant to the Gain of Function research on the Corona virus and how research can unleash havoc on mankind, if the ethics of such research is ignored.
After more than 200 years Mary Shelley’s former home town of Dundee finally has an original copy of the first French edition of the ghost book fantasmagoriana which inspired her to write Frankenstein. Delighted to have the book here in Scotland which is so rare and elusive as to be absent from many of the worlds biggest institutions
31:06 The reference to William Godwin getting a surprise letter from a fan in Scotland who he had never met is entirely incorrect. In reality, Godwin was friends with Baxter who he had been previously introduced to by David Booth. So why change the narrative? The entire way Mary’s time in Dundee is explained in this lecture does a great disservice to Scotland. It was in Dundee that Mary became inspired to become a writer with the Scottish landscape having inspired key locations within the novel.
Very interesting and thought provoking but it seems to me that Prof. Mellor has a tendency to conflate her own speculation with what Mary Shelley actually thought.
Fascinating. I always thought that the book was inspired by creation. God creates humans. Humans, some, end up hating God and blaming him for their problems.
Mary's parents were both extreme feminists. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, authored the contoversial "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and was a free woman. The only reason Mary was so well educated was because her parents were believers in "feminist ideology". No feminism, no Frankenstein.
I appreciate her insights, but respectfully ask that she reconsider her audience. She says she'd 'rather not use the mic.' She doesn't realize that her subject matter draws significantly upon disability studies, and that she most certainly has Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in her audience? USE THE MIC. ALWAYS.
44:45 really? this is your thesis? that Mary Shelley wrote an anti-feminist character? seems like you're projecting your biases on something that doesn't exist
Thankyou for the very interesting video Ann. I know women would prefer to stand on their own two feet and not lean on a man. However, in your video it really looks like you are leaning on the man with the bald head at the bottom of the screen.
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This is the clearest lecture I have ever heard on Frankenstein- it's extremely insightful and Professor Mellor is extremely well spoken. This has been a (very engaging) lifesaver for my study on Frankenstein.
I cannot get enough of this book. I often find myself watching lectures about it.
I, as well.
@@ivanppillay914 And myself; I concur
Same here.
Me too as of this year
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I finished my a levels about the book half a year ago, I am still so in love with watching these lectures.
An incredible lecture! Wonderful arguments brought to vivid life by the chosen textual citations.
So much more thought-provoking than the usual surface "w-w-we gotta be careful of new technology!" reading.
An idea that struck me from the professor's illustration of Mary Shelley's "Greece had not been enslaved..." was Victor's friend Henry Clerval, who is described as aspiring to join with Englishmen in the colonization/profiteering of the British territories in India; and who (because of this?), Shelley dooms to death in the narrative.
Anne K. Mellor truly has a marvelous insight on the creation of the Monster. How Mary Shelley builds up the Creature, how it comes into being, what makes Victor Frankenstein rejects his own Creation in recoil, and so forth. All these questions raised by readers are well-explained in Mellor's seminal publication. Lots of respect to her as a scholar!
Absolutely!
When I was doing my a level on this I didn’t have the time to go through all of it, it’s been half a year, so glad I finally had the time to enjoy it peacefully
Truly amazing and thoughtful lecture
wow, that was very lengthy, but definitely worth it. I absolutely loved all the social context she explained and how it influenced Mary Shelley's masterpiece.
That was brilliant. Thanks. While some of the male psychology elements were a stretch for me, I find it enlightening and a very solid argument situating it in the events of the time. Really enjoyed it 👍
Thank you so much for making this public, and thank you Anne Mellor for your extremely thoughtful analysis of this great work. You’ve certainly given this piece of literature the love and care that the creature so longed for!
I am totally amused by who Mary Shelly was...how much pain she endured in her life ....and that pain came out as a novel Frankenstein.
And Professor Anne gives us such a deep insight about her novel , in a crisp and simple manner.
Yes, Professor Mellor is brilliant yet so humble and engaging - never high handed or pedantic.
What an outstanding lecture, the insight at the end is just mind blowing!
In my opinion this lecture which I have enjoyed and listened to several times is very relevant to the Gain of Function research on the Corona virus and how research can unleash havoc on mankind, if the ethics of such research is ignored.
So true!
Such a brilliant & insightful lecture, this will definitely help with my study of Frankenstein
amazing lecture, probably the best about Mary SHelley I have ever heard.
really amazing and mind-blowing lecture.... Could not be more enigmatic
Brilliant lecture. I marvel at great scholarship.
After more than 200 years Mary Shelley’s former home town of Dundee finally has an original copy of the first French edition of the ghost book fantasmagoriana which inspired her to write Frankenstein. Delighted to have the book here in Scotland which is so rare and elusive as to be absent from many of the worlds biggest institutions
Byron actually did bother. His Fragment of a Novel would later inspire the creation of Polidori’s Vampyre.
31:06 The reference to William Godwin getting a surprise letter from a fan in Scotland who he had never met is entirely incorrect. In reality, Godwin was friends with Baxter who he had been previously introduced to by David Booth. So why change the narrative? The entire way Mary’s time in Dundee is explained in this lecture does a great disservice to Scotland. It was in Dundee that Mary became inspired to become a writer with the Scottish landscape having inspired key locations within the novel.
I thought that either Niccolo Machiaveli or Baldasare Castiglione first advocated an equal education for both boys and girls.
Very interesting and thought provoking but it seems to me that Prof. Mellor has a tendency to conflate her own speculation with what Mary Shelley actually thought.
she's quite the fiction writer!
What a marvelous insight into this already fantastic work
Fantastic.
"archipelago" pronunciation at 17:18
1:13:50 what a silly argument. dwarves will be genocided??
1:14:15 or maybe the yellow skin is just jaundice....since the monster is undead.
Very useful and interesting
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I thought, and Wikipedia confirms, that Erasmus Darwin was Charles' grandfather.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin#Biography
Interesting perspective
Simply Enlightening
I have become very interested in gothic and sci Fi if the. Victorian era.
Fascinating. I always thought that the book was inspired by creation. God creates humans. Humans, some, end up hating God and blaming him for their problems.
She seemed to project her feminist ideology on The novel. I would be interested in an analysis of Mary Shelly’s feelings towards other women.
huge projection, academics are so stupid sometimes
I have heard so many do this.
Every feminist thinks she personally knows Mary Shelley's pain
Mary's parents were both extreme feminists. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, authored the contoversial "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and was a free woman. The only reason Mary was so well educated was because her parents were believers in "feminist ideology". No feminism, no Frankenstein.
Google Mary Shelley’s mother, for your edification
At 46:41 - she is projecting w men's desires onto men.
I appreciate her insights, but respectfully ask that she reconsider her audience. She says she'd 'rather not use the mic.' She doesn't realize that her subject matter draws significantly upon disability studies, and that she most certainly has Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in her audience? USE THE MIC. ALWAYS.
18:18
44:45 really? this is your thesis? that Mary Shelley wrote an anti-feminist character? seems like you're projecting your biases on something that doesn't exist
Feminists always do
@@jebfallenMary Shelley was a feminist as well as her parents.
Whooosh!!!!! Missed it, did ya? Maybe go back and listen to the end. That was not at all, in any way, the thesis. Project much?
Why create something you don't like?
: wow interesting lecture
A little lesson from anthropology: father is always presumptive, mother is always biological. 😜
But if the Father didn’t exist at all; what then?
Zuckerberg? Iceberg?
Titanic?
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Me watching this as a student and seeing the comments:
So that’s what a melennial is
Impostor
Impostor
In pasta
millennial?
Thankyou for the very interesting video Ann. I know women would prefer to stand on their own two feet and not lean on a man. However, in your video it really looks like you are leaning on the man with the bald head at the bottom of the screen.
Wow this was a great, hilarious comment. I read it right as she propped her elbow on his dome!
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