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“Mothering Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” by Anne K. Mellor

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  • čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
  • "Mothering Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
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    The Fletcher Lecture 2008-2009 will be held April 22, 2009 at the Memorial Union Alumni Lounge (MU 202) ASU, 5:00 p.m.
    The 2008-2009 Ian Fletcher Memorial Lecture features Anne Mellor, Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies at UCLA. Mellor specializes in Romantic literature, British cultural history, feminist theory, philosophy, art history and sexuality studies. She is most known for a series of essays and books that introduced forgotten women Romantic writers into literary history and she edited the first volume of feminist essays on Romantic writers in 1988, entitled Romanticism and Feminism. Her most important books on women and Romanticism include Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780-1830 (2000), Mary Shelley: Her Fiction, Her Life, Her Monsters (1988), and Romanticism and Gender (1993). She also co-edited British Literature 1780-1830, a literary anthology that contributed to the prominence of women writers in Romanticism course syllabi and literary criticism. In 1999 Mellor received the Keats-Shelley Association Distinguished Scholar Award. She has received, among many other recognitions, two Guggenheim Fellowships and several National Endowment for the Humanities grants.

Komentáře • 66

  • @Supermario0727
    @Supermario0727 Před 4 lety +67

    I cannot get enough of this book. I often find myself watching lectures about it.

  • @christiantan5341
    @christiantan5341 Před 2 měsíci +5

    This is the clearest lecture I have ever heard on Frankenstein- it's extremely insightful and Professor Mellor is extremely well spoken. This has been a (very engaging) lifesaver for my study on Frankenstein.

  • @wuhank0612
    @wuhank0612 Před 4 lety +32

    Anne K. Mellor truly has a marvelous insight on the creation of the Monster. How Mary Shelley builds up the Creature, how it comes into being, what makes Victor Frankenstein rejects his own Creation in recoil, and so forth. All these questions raised by readers are well-explained in Mellor's seminal publication. Lots of respect to her as a scholar!

  • @satya.sneha2
    @satya.sneha2 Před 3 lety +28

    I am totally amused by who Mary Shelly was...how much pain she endured in her life ....and that pain came out as a novel Frankenstein.
    And Professor Anne gives us such a deep insight about her novel , in a crisp and simple manner.

    • @ivanppillay914
      @ivanppillay914 Před 2 lety +5

      Yes, Professor Mellor is brilliant yet so humble and engaging - never high handed or pedantic.

  • @rainamuriithi6440
    @rainamuriithi6440 Před 2 lety +9

    wow, that was very lengthy, but definitely worth it. I absolutely loved all the social context she explained and how it influenced Mary Shelley's masterpiece.

  • @ParulGupta-bu7pq
    @ParulGupta-bu7pq Před 5 měsíci +3

    Truly amazing and thoughtful lecture

  • @aurorarose7239
    @aurorarose7239 Před 3 lety +11

    In my opinion this lecture which I have enjoyed and listened to several times is very relevant to the Gain of Function research on the Corona virus and how research can unleash havoc on mankind, if the ethics of such research is ignored.

  • @SimonaTempra
    @SimonaTempra Před rokem +4

    amazing lecture, probably the best about Mary SHelley I have ever heard.

  • @alexblake3818
    @alexblake3818 Před 2 lety +6

    What an outstanding lecture, the insight at the end is just mind blowing!

  • @ivanppillay914
    @ivanppillay914 Před 2 lety +13

    Brilliant lecture. I marvel at great scholarship.

  • @inkisarali1416
    @inkisarali1416 Před 2 lety +6

    really amazing and mind-blowing lecture.... Could not be more enigmatic

  • @lydiasbookshopcafe3473
    @lydiasbookshopcafe3473 Před 4 lety +16

    Such a brilliant & insightful lecture, this will definitely help with my study of Frankenstein

  • @ImpartiallySpeaking
    @ImpartiallySpeaking Před 3 lety +9

    After more than 200 years Mary Shelley’s former home town of Dundee finally has an original copy of the first French edition of the ghost book fantasmagoriana which inspired her to write Frankenstein. Delighted to have the book here in Scotland which is so rare and elusive as to be absent from many of the worlds biggest institutions

  • @johngray9434
    @johngray9434 Před 2 lety +4

    Byron actually did bother. His Fragment of a Novel would later inspire the creation of Polidori’s Vampyre.

  • @Ozgipsy
    @Ozgipsy Před 2 lety +5

    That was brilliant. Thanks. While some of the male psychology elements were a stretch for me, I find it enlightening and a very solid argument situating it in the events of the time. Really enjoyed it 👍

    • @bayleebrown8167
      @bayleebrown8167 Před 4 měsíci

      Thank you so much for making this public, and thank you Anne Mellor for your extremely thoughtful analysis of this great work. You’ve certainly given this piece of literature the love and care that the creature so longed for!

  • @umair970
    @umair970 Před 3 lety +5

    What a marvelous insight into this already fantastic work

  • @walterreeves3679
    @walterreeves3679 Před 2 lety +6

    Very interesting and thought provoking but it seems to me that Prof. Mellor has a tendency to conflate her own speculation with what Mary Shelley actually thought.

    • @fhoofe3245
      @fhoofe3245 Před rokem +3

      she's quite the fiction writer!

  • @donovanmedieval
    @donovanmedieval Před 2 lety +3

    I thought that either Niccolo Machiaveli or Baldasare Castiglione first advocated an equal education for both boys and girls.

  • @DragonRazor9283
    @DragonRazor9283 Před 4 lety +6

    Interesting perspective

  • @fhoofe3245
    @fhoofe3245 Před rokem +3

    1:14:15 or maybe the yellow skin is just jaundice....since the monster is undead.

  • @alelamanna8084
    @alelamanna8084 Před 4 lety +4

    Simply Enlightening

  • @fhoofe3245
    @fhoofe3245 Před rokem +5

    "archipelago" pronunciation at 17:18

  • @brucestunkard2893
    @brucestunkard2893 Před rokem +5

    She seemed to project her feminist ideology on The novel. I would be interested in an analysis of Mary Shelly’s feelings towards other women.

    • @fhoofe3245
      @fhoofe3245 Před rokem +3

      huge projection, academics are so stupid sometimes

    • @jebfallen
      @jebfallen Před 10 měsíci +2

      I have heard so many do this.
      Every feminist thinks she personally knows Mary Shelley's pain

    • @lewienew
      @lewienew Před 7 měsíci +1

      Mary's parents were both extreme feminists. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, authored the contoversial "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" and was a free woman. The only reason Mary was so well educated was because her parents were believers in "feminist ideology". No feminism, no Frankenstein.

  • @thatmushroomguyanimations6235

    Very useful and interesting

  • @donnyetta
    @donnyetta Před 2 lety +2

    Fascinating. I always thought that the book was inspired by creation. God creates humans. Humans, some, end up hating God and blaming him for their problems.

  • @Smile-rd5fn
    @Smile-rd5fn Před 8 měsíci

    I have become very interested in gothic and sci Fi if the. Victorian era.

  • @donovanmedieval
    @donovanmedieval Před 2 lety +1

    I thought, and Wikipedia confirms, that Erasmus Darwin was Charles' grandfather.

  • @fhoofe3245
    @fhoofe3245 Před rokem +3

    1:13:50 what a silly argument. dwarves will be genocided??

  • @citycrusher9308
    @citycrusher9308 Před rokem +2

    At 46:41 - she is projecting w men's desires onto men.

  • @cdmChase1
    @cdmChase1 Před 2 lety +1

    Why create something you don't like?
    : wow interesting lecture

  • @piotrdrukier
    @piotrdrukier Před 2 měsíci +1

    A little lesson from anthropology: father is always presumptive, mother is always biological. 😜

    • @iLuvTheMostHigh
      @iLuvTheMostHigh Před měsícem +1

      But if the Father didn’t exist at all; what then?

  • @elizabethscherman793
    @elizabethscherman793 Před rokem +5

    I appreciate her insights, but respectfully ask that she reconsider her audience. She says she'd 'rather not use the mic.' She doesn't realize that her subject matter draws significantly upon disability studies, and that she most certainly has Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in her audience? USE THE MIC. ALWAYS.

  • @fhoofe3245
    @fhoofe3245 Před rokem +2

    44:45 really? this is your thesis? that Mary Shelley wrote an anti-feminist character? seems like you're projecting your biases on something that doesn't exist

    • @jebfallen
      @jebfallen Před 10 měsíci

      Feminists always do

    • @lewienew
      @lewienew Před 7 měsíci

      ​​@@jebfallenMary Shelley was a feminist as well as her parents.

    • @tmtb80
      @tmtb80 Před měsícem

      Whooosh!!!!! Missed it, did ya? Maybe go back and listen to the end. That was not at all, in any way, the thesis. Project much?

  • @cloudfire1015
    @cloudfire1015 Před 3 lety +5

    Me watching this as a student and seeing the comments:
    So that’s what a melennial is

  • @scottthomas5819
    @scottthomas5819 Před 2 lety +1

    +

  • @johnraines2591
    @johnraines2591 Před 5 měsíci

    Thankyou for the very interesting video Ann. I know women would prefer to stand on their own two feet and not lean on a man. However, in your video it really looks like you are leaning on the man with the bald head at the bottom of the screen.