Publisher's Synopsis
Hideous Progeny is a collection of eight student essays on the nature and significance of Mary Godwin's novel of 1818-Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus-first conceived on Lake Geneva in Switzerland when she was only eighteen years old. The collection is designed as a bicentenary tribute to that haunted summer and particularly to the night, 16 June, 1816, when Godwin first animated her creature and set pen to paper.