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The Importance of Being “Ernest“ in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Study in Literary Onomastics

open access: yesNames, 2005
In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley utilizes the names of her characters to simultaneously distance the reader from the characters and to make ironic comparisons between the true identity of a character and the identity a character portrays.
Maria Palaeas
doaj   +1 more source

MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN AS A GOTHIC NOVEL

open access: yesJOURNAL OF LANGUAGE
Gothic stories have a distinctive feature of presenting suspense and horror elements that make the reader both scared and curious as they read the gothic novel.
Irma Yanti   +4 more
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The Mystery of “those icy climes” (Shelley 269): Literature, Science and Early Nineteenth-century Polar Exploration

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2010
Nineteenth-century science probed into the mystery of ice, from the structure of snowflakes to glaciers to Polar exploration. Literature reflects this attempt to understand the shifting nature of ice, a transparent yet deceptive—neither liquid nor truly ...
Catherine Lanone
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A Test of the Coase Conjecture Using Prices of Electronic Books

open access: yesSouthern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Coase Conjecture predicts that a durable‐goods monopolist without commitment will rapidly cut price toward marginal cost. We test this prediction in the electronic‐book market using release‐day prices. To proxy for marginal cost, we use competitive prices of public‐domain electronic books on the same platforms.
Tim Groseclose, Alex Tabarrok
wiley   +1 more source

Patient‐reported outcomes, postoperative pain and pain relief after day‐case surgery (POPPY): short‐term peri‐operative analgesic use

open access: yesAnaesthesia, Volume 81, Issue 8, Page 1057-1067, August 2026.
Summary Introduction An increasing proportion of complex surgical procedures are being performed in the UK as day‐cases, with variable and limited follow up. Discharge prescriptions must provide adequate analgesia, while considering the safety of the patient and public, following best practice guidance and good opioid stewardship.
Anna Ratcliffe   +2083 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Frankenstein's Wake: Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction

open access: yes, 2021
This book offers a new perspective on Mary Shelley and on science fiction, arguing that she both established a new discursive space for moral thinking and laid the groundwork for the genre of science fiction.
Bedford, Alison
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Anatomies of failed revolution in Ovid’s Aeginetan Plague and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man

open access: yesDictynna, 2022
This essay examines the way that plague discourse allows two writers, Ovid and Mary Shelley, to contemplate the power of a revolution to transform a civic body.
Hunter Gardner
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Efficacy and Safety of Subcutaneous Efgartigimod PH20 in Adults With Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia (ADVANCE SC): A Multicenter, Randomized, Double‐Blinded, Placebo‐Controlled, Phase 3 Trial

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Hematology, Volume 101, Issue 7, Page 1494-1506, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Primary autoimmune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is characterized by thrombocytopenia, bleeding, and reduced health‐related quality of life. In the Phase 3 ADVANCE IV study, intravenous efgartigimod induced significant platelet count responses versus placebo in patients with chronic ITP. ADVANCE SC, a Phase 3, multicenter, randomized, double‐blinded,
Nichola Cooper   +546 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can We Generalize About the Mortality Features of the 1918‐19 Influenza Pandemic? An Examination of a Small‐Scale and Isolated British Columbian Population

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 38, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives In this paper we use the small‐scale population of the Fort George area (located in the central interior of British Columbia, Canada) to test the applicability of the three signature mortality features of the 1918/19 influenza pandemic: mortality rates higher than those in preceding influenza epidemics except for the elderly ...
Lianne Tripp   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A more comprehensive and commanding delineation: Mary Shelley's narrative strategy in Frankenstein [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
This thesis argues that the first edition of Frankenstein challenges conventional reading by employing what Simpson in Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry calls Romantic irony, where the absence of a stable 'metacomment' precludes an authoritative ...
Durrant, Simon Nicholas Colin
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