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Profs & Pints: The Science of Frankenstein
The Bier Baron Tavern
Washington, DC
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Profs & Pints: The Science of Frankenstein
Profs and Pints presents: The Science of Frankenstein, with Richard C. Sha, professor of literature and philosophy at American University and author of Imagination and Science in Romanticism.

In assembling her great creation, the classic 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley drew upon the science of her day and pondered where it would lead.

Biology had just come into being as its own distinct field. Researchers had taken up the nascent science of teratologythe study of abnormalities in the physiological development of living thingswhich derives its name from the Greek word for monster or marvel. A major controversy of the day was a debate over how the very existence of monsters reflected upon the nature of the creator.

People still spoke of a horrific 1803 experiment in which the Italian physicist Giovanni Aldini pumped electricity into the body of a dead criminal and caused one eye of the deceased to open.

Shelley became interested in electricity and its relationship with life. She also had undergone obstetrical experiences that would inform her novel, having given birth to two children and lost one.

In her authors introduction to a later edition of the book, one of the great works of literatures Romantic period, she described the vision that inspired the novel:  I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Professor Sha, who is affiliated with American Universitys Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, will discuss Shelleys hopes and fears related to science and situate her novel in the science of her day. Hes the winner of several teaching awards, so youll enjoy hearing him bring this subject to life. (Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with student ID).

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The Bier Baron Tavern (Afficher)
1523 22nd St NW
Washington, DC 20037
United States

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Arts > Littérature
Éducation > Classes
Autres > Technologie

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Sur BPT depuis : 27 Sept 2017
 
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