 | Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1835 - 452 pages
...the author lays claim to rank his work among the class which we have endeavoured to describe. " The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Durwin, and some of the physiological writers of 1 [The author of Franterutein is Mrs Shelley, daughter... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 420 pages
...the author lays claim to rank his work among the class which we have endeavoured to describe. '* The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Dunviii, and some of the physiological writers of 1 [The author of Frankenstein is Mrs Sheltey, daughter... | |
 | Walter Scott - Demonology - 1838 - 1198 pages
...to describe. " The event' on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Durwin, and gome of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of...remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination yr I . in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 pages
...the author lays claim to rank his work among the class which we have endeavoured to describe. " The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Durwin, and some of the physiological writers of 1 [The author of Frankenstein ia Mrs Shelley, daughter... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1869 - 200 pages
...JUSTICE," "CALEB WILLIAMS," ETC., THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. " ''I ''HE event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed,...impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as recording the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination ; yet, in assuming it as the... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Fiction - 1982 - 338 pages
...Political justice, Caleh "Williams, &c. %ese Volumes Are respectfully inscrihed By Author. PREFACE . The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin,1 and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall... | |
 | George Lewis Levine, Alan Rauch - English literature - 1987 - 372 pages
...Lorenz Oken, that Percy Shelley referred in his Preface to Frankenstein when he insisted that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed,...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence" (F, p. 6). Even though Erasmus Darwin never fully endorsed the revolutionary theory of Galvani and... | |
 | Martin Middeke, Werner Huber - Literary Collections - 1999 - 248 pages
...Frankenstein, which begins with Shelley's remark that this fiction has a possible factual basis: "The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed,...physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrance."32 It is only after his literary context has been established that Marlowe begins his own... | |
 | Ronald Chrisley, Sander Begeer - Computers - 2000 - 550 pages
...grandfather. In the preface to Frankenstein (actually written by Percy) the opening lines state that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence."" Later, in her introduction to the 1831 edition, Mary recalls how she, her husband, and Lord Byron discussed... | |
 | Gillian Beer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 316 pages
...physical production. Mary Shelley acknowledges Erasmus Darwin in the opening of her 1817 preface: 'The event on which this fiction is founded, has been supposed,...some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not ofimpossible occurrence.' 1 1 In Aspects of Form, ed. Lancelot Law Whyte (London, 1968): 41. 12 Ernst... | |
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The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. 
