Frankenstein and the birth of science

Introduction

Chemical revolution: getting high and losing your head

Electric fluids and animal spirits: Galvanism, Voltaic piles, electrochemistry and the start of a new era

The right stuff: vitalism, spontaneous generation and the meaning of "life"

Of man and monster: Frankenstein and the science of the mind

Anatomy of horror: dissection, murder and resurrection in the Romantic Era

To the ends of the Earth: polar exploration and the frozen wastes

Before and after: the painful birth and dreadful afterlife of Frankenstein and his monster.