 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.  Film, Horror, and the Body Fantasticby Linda Badley - 1995 - 199 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 728 pages
...succeeded, he forfeits every comfort of life, and finally even life itself. " The event," we are told, " has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination ;... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823 - 586 pages
...VOL. I. AS..' : I \ EDITION. LONDON : PRINTED FOR G. AND WB WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE. 1823. PREFACE. THE event on which this fiction is founded has been...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination ;... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1835 - 420 pages
...preface, 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 - Novelists, English - 1835 - 452 pages
...preface, 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 - 1853 - 420 pages
...preface, 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,...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as recording the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination ;... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Monsters - 1888 - 328 pages
...story, leaving the core and substance of it untouched. MWS LONDON. October 15, 1831. PREFACE. '"pHE event on which this fiction is founded has been •*•...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination ;... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein (Fictitious character) - 1891 - 348 pages
...the story, leaving the core and substance of Vit untouched. MWS LONDON, October 15, 183:. PREFACE. /T»HE event on which this fiction is founded has...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination ;... | |
 | 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
...wife's novel when he began the Preface to the 1818 edition of Frankenstein with the assertion that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been...writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence" (F, p. 1). To what specific suppositions, theories, and experiments, by Erasmus Darwin and others,... | |
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