Summary
This week Maggie and Harmony examine everyone’s favorite gothic author, Mary Shelley and one of her short stories, “The Invisible Girl.” They examine Shelley’s radical parents, her gothic worthy life, and her subversive spin on the Gothic genre. They also examine “The Invisible Girl,” as the 1800’s version of an empowering fairy tale.
In this episode:
https://americanliterature.com/author/mary-shelley/short-story/the-invisible-girl
https://philosophynow.org/issues/128/Mary_Shelley_Frankenstein_and_Moral_Philosophy
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Mary_Shelley
https://www-jstor-org.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/stable/20541066?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
Mary Shelley’s Invisible Girl meets the Invisible Man
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/mary-shelley-movie-frankenstein-books-husband-trailer-biography-quotes-a8433531.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-strange-and-twisted-life-of-frankenstein
https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley
Action Resources
Justice for Breonna Taylor
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFhfh4chNjo/?hl=en
https://www.standwithbre.com/
https://action.justiceforbreonna.org/sign/BreonnaWasEssential/
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