1816: The Year Without a Summer, Prometheus & Frankenstein
In 1816, the Year Without a Summer left Europe destitute, hungry and recovering from the Napoleonic Wars. When Mount Tambora erupted the skies blackened, and young poets on a trip to Geneva became stuck indoors. Amongst them was Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, influenced by tumultuous events and the enduring Greek myth of Prometheus. Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Sources: Dougherty, C. (2006). Prometheus. London: Routledge. Skeen, E, 1981, The Year Without a Summer, Journal of the Early Republic, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3122774 Pollin, B, 1965, Philosophical and Literary Sources of Frankenstein, Comparative Literature, www.jstor.org/stable/1769997 Townsend, C, Year Without a Summer, the Paris Review, https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/10/25/year-without-summer/ Ritchie, I, How the Year Without A Summer Gave Us Dark Masterpieces, Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/16/1816-year-without-summer-dark-masterpieces-beethoven-schubert-shelley The Year Without a Summer, In Our Time, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077j4yv Credits: Fire Beacon in slow motion CC-BY NatureClip http://www.natureclip.co.uk Creative Commons 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
