Frankenstein: Volume II: Chapters 6-9

Close Reads Podcast

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4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Once again David and Heidi are joined by Karen Swallow Prior and Joshua Gibbs as they discuss questions of virtue in Mary Shelley's classic novel, the monster's self-education, neo-classicism vs romanticism, the place of Paradise Lost in the story, and the differences between this narrative and the Adam and Eve story in Genesis.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, David Kern here. Welcome to Close Reeds. Before we get into the show today with our special
0:04.7	guests, Karen Swallow Pryor and Joshua Gibbs, who are joining Heidi White and I for our discussion of
0:09.0	Frankenstein. I wanted to remind you about how you can join the conversation. Head over to
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0:20.9	We also have our newsletter, which is close reads.substack.com.
0:24.4	And we have bonus episodes and some sweet show swag over at patreon.com slash close
0:30.2	reads, where we are currently discussing crime and punishment a little bit at a time.
0:34.7	The Close Reeds audience is the greatest audience in the podcast world,
0:38.0	and we're thankful you've taken the time to be a part of it. So thanks for that. Thanks for
0:42.1	listening. And with that, here is today's episode. Hello and welcome back to Close Reets here
0:48.6	on the Close Reads Podcast Network. I'm David Kern and I am joined by a regular contributor, Heidi
0:53.7	White and our good friends, Karen Swallow Pryor and Joshua Gibbs. Welcome back to the show, everyone.
0:58.4	Hello. Thanks, David. So we are here to discuss Frankenstein, as has been the case the last several weeks. We're here to discuss volume two, chapters six through nine of Frankenstein. In just a second, I'm going to ask Josh to give us the rundown of what happened during those chapters.
1:13.1	Because what I was noticing is that a lot of people couldn't put this book down.
1:17.3	And so they read the whole thing.
1:18.9	It's not terribly long.
1:19.8	So they read the whole thing prior to the first episode or maybe sometime between the first and the second episode.
1:25.0	So as is often the case with those of us who are on the show,
1:28.4	sometimes we lose track of exactly which section we're talking about at any given time.
1:32.6	So maybe a little summary can help with that. Before we do that, though, I want to ask Karen
1:37.3	a question because, Karen, you're working on a annotated version of this book through B&H as we've discussed. And I thought a lot about
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