Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was Queen Victoria's poet laureate. His lasting works include "Ulysses," "The Lady of Shalott," and Idylls of the King. [1]

• Poets.org

• The Poetry Foundation

• The Victorian Web

• His works

Discussion on the novel (genre), Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights

• The novel

http://literatureiilv.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/the-novel.html

• Framing

FRAME NARRATIVE: The result of inserting one or more small stories within the body of a larger story that encompasses the smaller ones. Often this term is used interchangeably with both the literary technique and the larger story itself that contains the smaller ones, which are called pericopes, "framed narratives" or "embedded narratives." The most famous example is Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which the overarching frame narrative is the story of a band of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. The band passes the time in a storytelling contest. The framed narratives are the individual stories told by the pilgrims who participate. Another example is Boccaccio's Decameron, in which the frame narrative consists of a group of Italian noblemen and women fleeing the plague, and the framed narratives consist of the tales they tell each other to pass the time while they await the disease's passing. The 1001 Arabian Nights is probably the most famous Middle Eastern frame narrative. Here, in Bagdad, Scheherazade must delay her execution by beguiling her Caliph with a series of cliffhangers. FRAME STORY: See frame narrative. FRAMING METHOD: Using the same features, wording, setting, situation, or topic at both the beginning and end of a literary work so as to "frame" it or "enclose it." This technique often provides a sense of cyclical completeness or closure.

Source: https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_F.html

• Distancing effect (Brecht)

Alienation effect, also called a-effect or distancing effect, German Verfremdungseffekt or V-effekt, idea central to the dramatic theory of the German dramatist-director Bertolt Brecht. It involves the use of techniques designed to distance the audience from emotional involvement in the play through jolting reminders of the artificiality of the theatrical performance.

Source: http://www.britannica.com/art/alienation-effect

• Galvanism

In medicine, galvanism refers to any form of medical treatment involving the application of pulses of electric current to body tissues provoking the contraction muscles that are stimulated by the electric current. This effect was named by Alessandro Volta after his contemporary, the scientist Luigi Galvani, who investigated the effect of electricity on dissected animals in the 1780's and 1790's. Galvani himself referred to the phenomenon as animal electricity, believing that he had discovered a distinct form of electricity.

Source: http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Definitions/galvanism.htm

• Cyborgs

The Cyborg Foundation

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

Paradise Lost: Study Guide

• Primitivism // Civilization/Barbarity

"The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling

Sobre Jeremy Button

El último confín de la tierra, Esteban Lucas Bridges

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. [1]

• Biography

• Encyclopaedia Britannica

• Poem Hunter

• Her poetry

• The Reader's Guide to Emily Brontë's Whuthering Heights

The Creation of the Monster

1. Edison's Frankenstein

2. James Whale's Frankenstein

3. The Rocky Horror Picture Show

 
4. Igor

Other interesting things to watch

Bride of Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Frankenweenie

Penny Dreadful

Frankenstein, M. D.

Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later known as Mary Shelley, was born in Somers Town, London, England, on the 30th of August 1797. She was the daughter of William Godwin, a journalist, philosopher and novelist, and Mary Wollstonecraft, educator and feminist philosopher.
Mary Shelley's most famous novel, Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, was released anonymously when she was only 21 years old. Only from its second edition, five years later, was her name to appear as the author. The central idea came to Shelly in a dream where she saw a student putting together parts of a man's body and working through a big engine to animate it. She first wrote a short story but Percy encouraged her to expand it into a novel. The novel had at the center of its plot a failed attempt at artificial life, by the scientist Frankenstein, which produced a monster. The work is considered to be a mixture of science fiction, gothic novel, and having elements from the Romantic movement.
During the last 20 years of her life, Mary Shelley was very busy editing and writing. She contributed frequently to ladies' magazines and after her father's death she planned to write his memoirs but ended up giving up on it. From 1939 Shelley's health started to decline, preventing her from work and she died most likely of a brain tumor on the 1st of February 1851. [1]

• Biography

• Poetry Foundation

• Mary Shelley's works

• Percy Shelley's review on Frankenstein

John Keats (1795-1821)

John Keats' Facebook

An Ode to Keats Tumblr