Her biggest inspiration was Luigi Galvani, an Italian physician of the 18th century, who discovered in 1780, that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by a spark of electricity. ... He starts off by constructing an experimentation on frog legs using electrical current to bring life back to them. ...
According to Tropp, "As in Galvini's earlier experiments with the legs of frogs, the momentary twitching induced by the current of electricity was mistaken for a short-lived spark of life" (54). It was widely held that due to such seemingly successful experiments it would only be a matter of time before a frog, or rather a corpse, would rise resurrected from the Galvanist's table. ...
Shelley was born in London in 1797, daughter of famous radical writers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; both of whom exemplified the ideologies of the French revolution. Shelley's mother was a pioneer feminist writer who had made her name with her revolutionary ideas opposing the patriarchal ...
