Frankenstein's Promethean dimension
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As the story of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus recounts the making of a kind of human being, a Promethean theme of defiance of the gods is evoked, in reference to the mythological hero.
The latter myth was known to Mary Shelley, who had read it first and foremost in the Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiques, published by Madame de Genlis in 1802.
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