今年是科幻小說鼻祖《科學怪人》（Frankenstein, 1818）出版200週年。
第一講【《科學怪人》的前世今生】講師：王道還│臺大共同教育中心兼任助理教授關於《科學怪人》的來歷，沒有人比作者更權威了，她告訴讀者：「發明並不是向壁虛構，而是源自混沌。首先，素材必須已經具備。發明是為看不透、也不具體的素材創造形式，而素材是無法發明的。」這場演講將以文學史、科學史史料為那一「混沌」敷上血肉。原來早在1790年，本書主角的名字（ Frankenstein）與創作（人型機器人）便已出現在法國的革命文學中了。※延伸閱讀：https://www.mirrormedia.mg/story/20180604cul001/
2012，芝加哥大學出版社的新書：http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo13265096.html
The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France
336 pages | 29 halftones, 2 line drawings | 6 x 9 | © 2012
The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs, the guillotine, and Madame Defarge, but it was also a publishing revolution: more than 1,200 novels were published between 1789 and 1804, when Napoleon declared the Revolution at an end. In this book, Julia V. Douthwaite explores how the works within this enormous corpus announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Mary Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and L. Frank Baum.
Deploying political history, archival research, and textual analysis with eye-opening results, Douthwaite focuses on five major events between 1789 and 1794—first in newspapers, then in fiction—and shows how the symbolic stories generated by Louis XVI, Robespierre, the market women who stormed Versailles, and others were transformed into new tales with ongoing appeal. She uncovers a 1790 story of an automaton-builder named Frankénsteïn, links Baum to the suffrage campaign going back to 1789, and discovers a royalist anthem’s power to undo Balzac’s
Père Goriot. Bringing to light the missing links between the ancien régime and modernity,
The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France is an ambitious account of a remarkable politico-literary moment and its aftermath.
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List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. From Fish Seller to Suffragist: The Women’s March on Versailles
Chapter Two. The Frankenstein of the French Revolution
Chapter Three. The Once and Only Pitiful King
Chapter Four. How Literature Ended the Terror
In Guise of a Conclusion
On the Republican Calendar and Dates
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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