The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost Chapters from Revolutionary France

(University of Chicago Press) The French Revolution brings to mind violent mobs and the guillotine, but it also was a publishing revolution. This book explores how the more than 1,200 works of the French Revolution announced the new shapes of literature to come and reveals that vestiges of these stories can be found in novels by the likes of Shelley, Hoffmann, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, and Baum. Douthwaite is a professor of French at the University of Notre Dame.