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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Right.
But Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley transcends english literature.
She is a global literary figure and Frankenstein is a transcendent work that focuses on primal elements of human nature as much as the Greek classics. That puts her on a higher plane than english literary figures. Or French, Spanish, or American, for that matter.
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I agree. All I was disagreeing with was the statement that Shelley would be relegated to "a footnote in his wife's biography". He is, and I think will remain, a significant literary figure in his own right.