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cut outs from newspapers form a human silhouette behind the title of the column "Brutal Monsters"

The real monster of ‘Frankenstein’ is brutal, and it’s not who you think

Cate Burtner
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Oct. 14, 2024
Arts & Life
Halloween (and surrounding weeks) are the ideal time to read these mysterious, ghostly, and contemplative tales. (Photo: Mark York/The Stanford Daily)

Spooktacular Halloween reads

Arts & Life Reads beat writers, Scott Stevens, Lily Nilipour, Maya Czeneszew, Nicole Wesson, Roberta Gonzalez Marquez, Shana E. Hadi and Mark York
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Oct. 30, 2019
In "Northanger Abbey," Jane Austen combines a touching coming-of-age story with a comic sendup of the Gothic novel (courtesy of Flickr).

Romanticism and its ripples

Claire Francis and Shana E. Hadi
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May 28, 2019
Most people read the 1831 edition of "Frankenstein," but it is not Mary Shelley's original version (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

‘Frankenstein’ and its transformations

Shana E. Hadi
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Nov. 29, 2018
Patrons at the Cantor Arts Center. (Photo: JONATHAN LIU/The Stanford Daily)

‘Betray the Secret: Humanity in the Age of ‘Frankenstein’’ at the Cantor Arts Center

Jonathan Liu
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Aug. 8, 2018
Boris Karloff as The Creature in the 1931 Universal Pictures film "Frankenstein." (Courtesy of Universal Pictures)

Finding an unexpected home in ‘Frankenstein’

Emma Heath
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Oct. 21, 2017
The Stanford Daily

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