In Part 2 of our conversation with Michael Bérubé, we discuss the enduring legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—how a cautionary tale about reckless experimentation and radicalization speaks just as forcefully to our present moment as it did to readers in 1818.

Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Penn State University and the editor of the Norton Library edition of Frankenstein. He is the author of ten books, including What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education and Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child.
 
The Norton Library edition of Frankenstein features the complete text of the 1818 edition. To learn more or purchase a copy, go to http://seagull.wwnorton.com/frankenstein.

Learn more about the Norton Library series at http://wwnorton.com/norton-library.

Listen to our Spotify playlist inspired by Frankenstein: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3t8NNem7nWM3IV7BT6j7pW?si=960699708f7a49de.

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Episode transcript at: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/frankenstein/part1/transcript.