{"product_id":"the-lady-and-her-monsters-a-tale-of-dissections-reallife-dr-frankensteins-and-the-creation-of-mary-shelleys-masterpiece-isbn-9780062025814","title":"The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lady and Her Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMontillo recounts how—at the intersection of the Romantic Age and the Industrial Revolution—Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein was inspired by actual scientists of the period: curious and daring iconoclasts who were obsessed with the inner workings of the human body and how it might be reanimated after death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith true-life tales of grave robbers, ghoulish experiments, and the ultimate in macabre research—human reanimation—\u003cem\u003eThe Lady and Her Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant exploration of the creation of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s horror classic.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe truly \u003cem\u003eelectric \u003c\/em\u003estory of Mary Shelley’s \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e, this book—printed with special ink—literally glows in the dark!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with the verve and ghoulish fun of a Tim Burton film, \u003cem\u003eThe Lady and Her Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly entertaining blend of literary history, lore, and early scientific exploration that traces the origins of the greatest horror story of all time–Mary Shelley's \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExploring the frightful milieu in which \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e was written, Roseanne Montillo, an exciting new literary talent, recounts how Shelley's Victor Frankenstein mirrored actual scientists of the period. Montillo paints a rich portrait of Shelley and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their contemporaries and their friend Lord Byron. Intellectually curious, they were artists, poets, and philosophers, united in captivation with the occultists and daring scientists risking their reputations and their immortal souls to advance our understanding of human anatomy and medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese remarkable investigations could not be undertaken without the cutthroat grave robbers who prowled cemeteries for a supply of fresh corpses. The newly dead were used for both private and very public autopsies and dissections, as well as the most daring trials of all: attempts at human reanimation through the application of electricity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuxtaposing monstrous mechanization and rising industrialism with the sublime beauty and decadence of the legendary Romantics who defined the age, Montillo takes us into a world where poets become legends in salons and boudoirs; where fame-hungry \"doctors\" conduct shocking performances for rabid, wide-eyed audiences; and where maniacal body snatchers secretly toil in castle dungeons.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Enthusiatic prose... A Spirited investigation of the bizarre times that inspired Mary Shelley’s \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein.\u003c\/i\u003e” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness (Starred Review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With a flair for both drama and detail, Montillo breathes her own kind of life into the story of the men determined to discover its very elements.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscover Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Spills the dirt on the making of the 19th-century novel--affairs, family drama, a lake house with Lord Byron!--and paints a grimly fascinating picture of the dissections and experiments in “animal electricity” that inspired the gothic tale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMental Floss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Montillo’s book is a welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Commercial Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A welcome tribute to the literary, and especially the scientific, roots of the story.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lady and Her Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A haunting picture of an era in which science and the arts overlapped, a perfect storm in which inspiration for “Frankenstein” could strike. 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