I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I F2 embraced her ; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change,... Frankenstein: or, The modern Prometheus - Página 88por Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1823Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1818 - 572 páginas
...bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprized, I embraced her; bufas I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became...I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shrowd enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. I started... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1982 - 338 páginas
...walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I im- 10 printed the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with...flannel. I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew 15 covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow... | |
| George Levine, U. C. Knoepflmacher - 1982 - 368 páginas
...echoes through the book. In that dream Elizabeth is transformed into "the corpse of my dead mother": a "shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel." The nightmare vision is followed by the waking vision that conflates remarkably with Elizabeth, Victor's... | |
| Mary Poovey - 1985 - 309 páginas
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on...grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. [P. 53] Lover and mother, as the presiding female guardians of Frankenstein's "secluded and domestic"... | |
| Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 páginas
...Elizabeth in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on...grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. (57) In addition to vividly expressing Victor's Oedipal longings, this dream shows that he somehow... | |
| George E. Haggerty - 2010 - 216 páginas
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the street of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on...the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror. (58) This dream has been much discussed, and I see no reason to rehearse its harrowing psychological... | |
| Meena Alexander - 1989 - 240 páginas
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on...my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave- worms crawling in the folds of the flannel. (F.58) Femininity has sought and found its own nemesis.... | |
| Ronald R. Thomas - 1990 - 324 páginas
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on...they became livid with the hue of death; her features apppeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped... | |
| Elisabeth Bronfen - 1992 - 484 páginas
...Elizabeth in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprized, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on...of the flannel. I started from my sleep with horror ... I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed;... | |
| Susan Wolstenholme - 1993 - 234 páginas
...Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt. Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on...grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel, (p. 58) His later embrace of Elizabeth's corpse echoes this gesture: "I rushed towards her and embraced... | |
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