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maderrIt's kinda funny, really, that it's still regarded as so taboo a subject in writing. Reading The Monsters, damn near everyone in the Romantic period was freaking obsessed, I swear. Every other gothic writer used it in his stories, and people loved to bitch about it.
Then you've got Byron who practiced incest.
Don't even get me started on the rampant homosexuality. It might have been illegal, but that wasn't stopping anyone. I think it's funny that in all this, the writers never once suggest Byron and Percy might have had a little fun. Totally probable, though if this book is accurate they were both flaming assholes.
Still write pretty poetry, however.
And fair warning, I'm going to geek over Frankenstein again later. I had planned on going shopping (groceries, and I wanted to use a ten dollars off coupon to get a Poe collection) but the weather is so freakin' dreary I think I'll just read and write.
I love the old, gothic and gothci-esque classics. So very very much.
Ah. This so makes me want to work on Unequal Children again. That story is pure indulgence though, and I've other things that are more important.
Anyway. That's for torturing you in my next post, because love this book as I do, it's as oblivious to the one question I have of Frankenstein that no one ever asks or answers.
Then you've got Byron who practiced incest.
Don't even get me started on the rampant homosexuality. It might have been illegal, but that wasn't stopping anyone. I think it's funny that in all this, the writers never once suggest Byron and Percy might have had a little fun. Totally probable, though if this book is accurate they were both flaming assholes.
Still write pretty poetry, however.
And fair warning, I'm going to geek over Frankenstein again later. I had planned on going shopping (groceries, and I wanted to use a ten dollars off coupon to get a Poe collection) but the weather is so freakin' dreary I think I'll just read and write.
I love the old, gothic and gothci-esque classics. So very very much.
Ah. This so makes me want to work on Unequal Children again. That story is pure indulgence though, and I've other things that are more important.
Anyway. That's for torturing you in my next post, because love this book as I do, it's as oblivious to the one question I have of Frankenstein that no one ever asks or answers.
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Date: 2006-09-23 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-24 01:05 am (UTC)It's a little difficult to slog through at times (oh! the academia!), but it rests heavily in parts on Shelley, Byron, and all the gruesome things the victorians loved. Highly recc'd to you, m'dear!