Frankenstein Unbound (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Brian W. Aldiss
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: 2020 and 1816
- Setting: Texas and Switzerland
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Folkloric or magical people, Nineteenth century, Literature, Future, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Religion, West, U.S., Time travel, Fantasy, Texas, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Horror, Technology, Monsters, Switzerland or Swiss people
- Locales: Texas, Geneva, Switzerland
Characters Discussed
Joseph (Joe) Bodenland, a liberal presidential adviser deposed by right-wing extremists. He is transported by a timeslip from the twenty-first to the early nineteenth century. He is a grandfather but becomes young again when the timeslip takes him back to 1816. He finds himself at Lake Geneva, near the Villa Diodati, where he meets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s mistress, Mary, who is in the process of writing the novel Frankenstein. Attracted to Mary, he has a brief affair with her. Having come from the future, Bodenland can...
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