Frankenstein第一课时（解析课）After-class task 学案.pdfVIP

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Furtherreading:

1).AboutGothicfiction

Gothicfiction,sometimescalledGothichorrorinthe20thcentury,isagenre(类

别)ofliteratureandfilmthatcovershorror,deathandattimesromance.Itis

saidtoderivefromtheEnglishauthorHoraceWalpoles1764novelTheCastleof

Otranto,latersubtitledAGothicStory.EarlycontributorsincludedClaraReeve,

AnnRadcliffe,WilliamThomasBeckfordandMatthewLewis.Ittendstostress

emotionandapleasurableterrorthatexpandstheRomanticliteratureofthe

time.Thecommonpleasureswerethesublime(崇高),whichindescribably

takesusbeyondourselves.SuchextremeRomanticismwaspopularthroughout

Europe,especiallyamongEnglishandGerman-languageauthors.Its

19th-centurysuccesspeakedwithMaryShelleysFrankensteinandworkbyE.T.

A.Hoffmann,EdgarAllanPoeandCharlesDickens,andinpoetrywithSamuel

TaylorColeridge.

2).AboutMaryShelley

Theauthor:

MaryShelleysmother,MaryWollstonecraft,diedfrominfectionshortlyafter

givingbirthtoher.Shelleygrewclosetoherfather,WilliamGodwin,havingnever

knownhermother.Godwinhiredanurse,whobrieflycaredforherandherhalf

sister,beforemarryingsecondwifeMaryJaneClairmont,whodidnotliketheclose

bondbetweenShelleyandherfather.TheresultingfrictioncausedGodwinto

favourhisotherchildren.

Shelleysfatherwasafamousauthorofthetime,andhereducationwasof

greatimportancetohim,althoughitwasnotformal.Shelleygrewupsurrounded

byherfathersfriends,writers,andpersonsofpoliticalimportance,whooften

gatheredat