Frankenstein! Myth, Monster, and Popular Culture with Linda Mizejewski

Name: Frankenstein! Myth, Monster, and Popular Culture with Linda Mizejewski
Start: 2025-10-23T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-23T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 217 E Broadway, Granville, OH, United States, Ohio 43023

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

217 E Broadway, Granville, OH, United States, Ohio 43023 | Granville, OH

Linda Mizejewski will discuss one of the most influential novels ever written and science's most enduring myth, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein towers over Western literature as one of the most influential novels ever written and science’s most enduring myth. Technologies of artificial intelligence, laboratory fertilization, cloning, and titanium body parts make Shelley’s monster more relevant with each passing decade. Frankenstein also launched the horror and science fiction genres that have dominated popular culture for two centuries, developing into the monster-in-the-house tradition of Psycho and serial-killer movies. This presentation explores the richness of the Frankenstein tradition in film and literature, the gendered implications of the motherless monster, and the social and psychological meanings of the monster who will not die.
Registration required.
For Adults & Grades 7–12.