It might be off-season to read Frankenstein for Christmas, but the gloomy days of a Southern winter make for perfect reading weather.
Frankenstein is an epistolary novel, meaning it was written in a letter format. Well-written epistolaries make it easy to believe the events are true. They suck the reader in, making the audience a character who is intimately close to the events. As the horror unfolds, it’s all the harder to remember that we’re only reading fiction.
The eighteenth century saw many other epistolary novels, including Dracula. One wonders if Dracula and Frankenstein’s lasting popularity is in-part due to this writing style.
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