Guide to the Classics: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man is a prophecy of life in a global pandemic
- Written by Olivia Murphy, Postdoctoral research fellow in English, University of Sydney
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Mary Shelley is famous for one novel – her first, Frankenstein (1819). Its extraordinary career in adaptation began almost from the point of publication, and it has had a long afterlife as a keyword in our culture. Frankenstein speaks to us now in our fears of scientific overreach, our difficulties in recognising our shared...