Aeschylus
Prometheus Bound, 86
alchemy
alchemical influences
and Barruel’s Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, 8, 115, 120–121
Magnus, Albertus, 32–33, 62, 73
and atheism, 86–87
in Frankenstein, 7–11, 61–67, 85–86
in other works by Percy Shelley
St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, 85, 116–120
Zastrozzi, 85
and science, 68–69
and Shelley, Percy, interest in, 8–9, 28, 46, 59–62, 64–67, 85–88
see also Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley; Illuminati and Frankenstein
Alighiere, Dante, 40
anonymity and Percy Bysshe Shelley
false handwriting, 114
false return address, 114
in Frankenstein, 21–22, 28, 101–102
and the Illuminati agenda, 123–124
in other works
Athanase, 112–113
The Athenaeum Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, review, 60, 99–101
The Cenci, 113
A Discourse on the Manners…, 112
Epipsychidion, 107–111
Fragments connected with Epipsychidion, 109–111
Julian and Maddalo, 113–114
The Necessity of Atheism, 42–43, 64, 104–106, 114
Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, 65, 102
Peter Bell the Third, 112
Queen Mab, 106–107
St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, 50, 103–104
pseudonyms & works written using
Elfin Knight, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 111–112
By a Gentleman…; St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, 103–104
The Hermit of Marlowe, Address to the People…, 111
Miching Mallecho, Esq., Peter Bell the Third, 112
PBS, in Zastrozzi, 103
various, in letters prior to The Necessity of Atheism, 43, 80, 105–106
as signature in works of, 22, 42–43, 102–108, 111–114
and subversive works of, 22, 42–43, 45–46, 80, 82–83, 86–87, 88, 106–107, 122–124, 147
see also Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, works of
atheism and Christianity
in Frankenstein, 42, 79–80, 85–87, 89–90, 91–93
and other works by Shelley
The Necessity of Atheism, 80–83, 86–87
Prometheus Unbound, 86–87
Queen Mab, 84–85
St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, 85
Zastrozzi, 85
Shelley’s views on, 42–43, 79–83, 147–148
see also Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley
The Athenaeum Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, 60, 100
authorship of Frankenstein, reviews
Goulding, Christopher, 35–39, 73
Holmes, Richard
Shelley: The Pursuit, 31–32, 59, 70, 132–133
Jackson, Ian, “Science as Spectacle,” 70–71
Knights Quarterly, 21
Lauritsen, John
The Man who Wrote Frankenstein, 22–23
Robinson, Charles, 19–20, 22, 88, 146–147
Scott, Sir Walter, review, 21–22
Zimmerman, Phyllis
Shelley’s Fiction, 22–23
see also Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, works of
B
Banks, Sir Joseph, 39
Barruel, Abbé Augustin
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, 8, 115, 120–121
Bavaria
the Bavarian Illuminati
see under Illuminati and Frankenstein
Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography, 34, 61–62, 67, 70, 101–104
on Shelley’s Athanase, 112–113
on Shelley’s Epipsychidion, 108
on Shelley’s The Sensitive Plant, 134
on St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, 103–104
Byron, Lord George Gordon, 19, 44–50, 46, 52, 158–160
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 45
C
Cavallo, Tiberio
and the Cavallo Multiplier, 73, 73–74
Charlotte, Princess, 111
Christianity
Clairmont, Claire, 46, 48–49, 121, 135
Claridge, Laura P.
“Parent-Child Tensions in Frankenstein: The Search for Communion,” 133–134
Clifford, Robert
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism, translation, 115
D
Darwin, Erasmus, 30–32, 31, 36, 52, 68
Dr. Greenlaw’s Syon House Academy
E
Engraving by George J. Stodart, 151
Eton, Percy Bysshe Shelley at, 33–39, 67, 68, 69, 71, 90, 120
see also Shelley, Percy Bysshe, works of
F
Faber, George Stanley, 105–106
Fraistat, Neil
Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, 87–88, 146
Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley
demon, confrontation with, 93–97, 95
family relationships, childhood, 62, 63–64, 90, 114, 131–134
Frankenstein as biography, 27–31, 58–61, 63–67, 96–97, 142–143, 149
love, sought and lost, 28, 61, 64–67, 127–131, 137–139
social isolation, other Shelley works on
Athanase, 112–113
Epipsychidion, 135–136
Laon and Cythna, 66–67
On Love, 141–143
Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, 65–66
The Revolt of Islam, 66–67
The Sensitive Plant, 130–135
On the Symposium, or Preface to the Banquet of Plato, translation, 137–139
Victor, name of character, 102
see also alchemy; anonymity and Percy Bysshe Shelley; atheism and Christianity; authorship of Frankenstein, reviews; homosexuality; Illuminati and Frankenstein; politics and revolution; science and Frankenstein; Shelley, Mary, and Frankenstein; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, works of; the Prefaces
Frankenstein Notebooks, 22, 146
G
Galvani, Luigi, 37
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft
see Shelley, Mary
Godwin, William, 40, 45, 53–54
Goulding, Christopher
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, article in, 35–39
“The Real Doctor Frankenstein,” 73
Greenlaw, Dr., Syon House Academy
Griffith, James, 81
Grove, Charles, 65
Grove, Harriet, 64–67
H
Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 75, 105, 107, 120, 132
The Necessity of Atheism, 64, 82–83
Holmes, Richard
Shelley: The Pursuit, 31–32, 59, 70, 132–133
homosexuality
in Frankenstein, 23
Percy Bysshe Shelley on, in A Discourse on the Manners of…, 112
see also Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley
Hookham, Thomas, Jr., 45–46, 93, 106
I
the Illuminati and Frankenstein
Bavarian, and Ingolstadt, 8–9, 28, 42, 115–116, 120–121, 123, 132, 148
and Christianity, 8–9
in other works by Shelley
St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, 116–120
and Percy Bysshe Shelley, 8–12, 116–124, 148
and the setting, 121
see also alchemy; Barruel, Abbé Augustin; Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley; Weishaupt, Adam
Incognito, Magus
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians, 117
Ingolstadt, Bavaria, 8–9, 42, 115–116, 120–121, 123, 132, 148
J
Jackson, Ian
“Science as Spectacle,” 70–71
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 36–38, 73
K
Karloff, Boris, 59
Knellwolf and Goodall
Frankenstein’s Science, 70–71, 72
Knigge, Baron, 9
Knights Quarterly, 21
L
Lauritsen, John
The Man who Wrote Frankenstein, 22–23
Lind, James
influence, Percy Shelley, 35–39, 71–74
The Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, article on, 35–36
silhouette, 72
M
Magnus, Albertus, 32–33, 62, 73
Margaret, Countess of Mount Cashell, 134
masculinity and hermaphroditism, Shelley and Frankenstein, 28–29, 129, 135–136
Mellor, Anne K., 67–69
O
Oxford University, Percy Shelley at, 43, 45, 64, 80–82, 86, 88, 90, 104–106, 105, 114, 120
see also Shelley, Percy Bysshe, works of
P
Paracelsus, 33, 35, 39, 46, 52, 62, 73
Peacock, Thomas Love, 113
Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792–8 July 1822), 26
Percy Bysshe Shelley Memorial, University College, Oxford, 82-83
Pilfold, Elizabeth, 131
Plato
influence on Percy Shelley, 73
Shelley’s A Discourse on the Manners of the Ancient Greeks…, 112
Symposium (The Banquet), 136–138, 141, 149
Polidori, John William, 46, 46–49
The Vampyre, 48
politics and revolution
and anonymity in works of Shelley, 22, 42–43, 45–46, 80, 82–83, 86–87, 88, 106–107, 122–124, 147
Shelley, other works by
Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte, 111
The Devil’s Walk, 45
A Letter to Lord Ellenborough, 45
Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant, 113
see also Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley
the Prefaces
1818 Preface
anonymity, as signature of Percy, 42–43
author of, 54
literature, exposure to, 39–42
origin of the story, differences, 43–47
and the Preface to Prometheus Unbound, parallels, 40–41
text of, 155–156
1831 Preface
origin of the story, differences, 43–44, 47–49
text of, 157–162
and Byron, Lord George Gordon, 44–49
companions, four vs. three, competing, 44–49
and Godwin, William, 53–54
literature and poetry, author knowledge of, 39–41
and Polidori, John William, 46–49
prefaces as autobiographical, 29–31, 42
science, knowledge of, and Frankenstein, 31, 33
see also Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley; Shelley, Mary, and Frankenstein; Shelley, Percy Bysshe, works of
R
Reiman, Donald H.
Shelley’s Poetry and Prose, 87–88, 146–147
Robinson, Charles E.
Frankenstein authority, 19–20, 22, 88
Frankenstein notebooks, handwriting analysis of, 146–147
Robison, John
Proofs of a Conspiracy, 8
Rosenkreuz, Christian, 116, 116
Royal Society of Iceland expedition of 1772, 39
S
science and Frankenstein
influences
Darwin, Erasmus, 30–32, 31, 36, 52, 68
Magnus, Albertus, 32–33, 62, 73
Paracelsus, 33, 35, 39, 46, 52, 62, 73
Thornton, Robert, and his Medical Extracts, 38, 46, 74
Walker, Dr. Adam, lectures of, 34, 68, 69–71, 72
and Mary Shelley, 35–36, 38–39, 52, 71, 75
and Percy Shelley, 31, 33–37, 39, 52, 67–70, 75, 148, 150
and Shelley works in parallel
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 111–112
see also Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley
Scott, Sir Walter, 21–22
secret societies
see Illuminati and Frankenstein
setting, of Frankenstein, 8–9, 115–116
Shelley, Elizabeth
Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, 102
Shelley, Harriet, 93–95, 97, 107
Shelley, Mary, and Frankenstein
authorship, claim to, as misdirection, 20–22, 28–30, 50, 52–54, 57–61, 88, 116, 142–143
Frankenstein as biography, 27–31, 58–61, 63–67, 96–97, 142–143, 149
illus, 51
literary influences, 39–41
on Percy’s contribution to, 19–20, 22, 52–54, 58–59, 145–146
on Percy’s influence, 71, 75, 96–97, 99–100, 124
scientific knowledge, 35–36, 38–39, 52, 71, 75
as transcriptionist, 87–88, 112, 146–147
see also authorship of Frankenstein, reviews; Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley; the Prefaces
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, art works on, 26, 59, 82–83, 110, 151
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, works of
Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte, 111
Athanase, 112–113
The Athenaeum Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, review, 60, 99–101
The Devil’s Walk, 45
A Discourse on the Manners of the Ancient Greeks…, 112
Epipsychidion, 107–111, 135–136
Fragments connected with Epipsychidion, 109–111
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 111–112
Julian and Maddalo, 113–114
Laon and Cythna, 66–67
A Letter to Lord Ellenborough, 45
On Love, 141–143
The Necessity of Atheism, 64, 80–83, 86–87, 104–106
Oedipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant, 113
Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire, 65–66, 163–170
Prometheus Bound, translation, 86
Prometheus Unbound, 34, 40–41, 86–87
The Revolt of Islam, 66–67
The Sensitive Plant, 130–135
St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian, 50, 85, 103–104, 116–120
On the Symposium, of Preface to the Banquet of Plato, translation, 137–139
see also anonymity and Percy Bysshe Shelley; authorship of Frankenstein, reviews; Eton, Percy Bysshe Shelley at; Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley; Oxford University, Percy Shelley at; Shelley, Mary; the Prefaces
The Sleeping Hermaphrodite, 110
Stodart, George J.
Engraving by…, 151
Syon House Academy, 34, 68, 69, 70, 90, 132
T
Theodor, Karl, 115
Thornton, Robert
U
University of Oxford
see Oxford University, Percy Shelley at
V
Victor Frankenstein (character)
see Frankenstein and life of Percy Shelley
W
Walker, Adam, 34, 68, 69, 69–71, 72
Syllabus of a Course on Natural Philosophy, 69–70
Wasserman, Earl
on Alastor, 140
Shelley, A Critical Reading, 128–130
Weishaupt, Adam
and the Bavarian Illuminati, 8–9, 115–116, 123
see also the Illuminati and Frankenstein
White, Newman Ivey
biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 33, 35, 61, 80–81
on The Necessity of Atheism, 80–81
Wilde, Oscar
“The Critic as Artist,” 10
Z
Zimmerman, Phyllis
Shelley’s Fiction, 22–23