(Authorial Context) Mary Shelley was born Mary Godwin to parents Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Godwin, in August of 1797. For the early days of her life, Shelley received a private education from her father. In the December of 1816, she married Romantic era poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and began writing the novel Frankenstein, which was originally titled, The Modern Prometheus. At this point she was, around the age of nineteen. Shelley then spent two years refining her novel, to have the first edition published in 1818. She wrote Frankenstein as a gothic science fiction novel, and as such, used many themes from her era of literature, the Romantic Era. (Romantic Era) The Romantic period of literature has no clear or defined staring point, but it is accepted that the Romantic era started at the turn of the 18th century, and ended mid-19th century. This era of belief, encouraged the disregard of previously set precepts of the natural world, and encouraged new theories. Some of the more commonplace ideals that are seen in Romantic texts, revolve around the imagination, emotion, nature, individualism, and childhood. …show more content…
To list all of these techniques, would be a tiresome and convoluted process, and as such, the more important and apparent of these techniques have been examined. These techniques are the epistolary features and perspectives, the figurative language, the allusions within the text, and the Gothic excess that is found throughout the