In considering the question of why Mary Shelley
created monsters, LL
says she was haunted by that phrase from Goya
: The sleep of reason produces monsters. If you try to force things to be...
Publishing
Liz Lochhead
Lochhead has reworked this play (about Mary Shelley
's creation of Frankenstein) several times. A revised version was performed at the EdinburghFringe Festival
by the Traverse Theatre Club
under the new title Blood...
Textual Features
Ann Hatton
The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope
; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but...
Timeline
1789-98: Essays in Physiognomy (translated by Henry...
Building item
1789-98
Essays in Physiognomy (translated by Henry Hunter
from Johann Kaspar Lavater
), with engravings by Johann Heinrich Füssli
(known in England as Henry Fuseli), set off crazes for physiognomy and silhouettes.
Donato, Clorinda. “Reading the Face: Lavater in the Twenty-first Century”. Lumen, edited by William Kinsley et al., Vol.