Events › Old Weird America: Frankenstein: The Modern Monster (IN PERSON @ NORTHSIDE)

Join historian Cathy Polovina as she follows her curiosity and explores "Old Weird America," to look a bit closer at a variety of adventurous, innovative, and unusual characters throughout American history.

Frankenstein: The Modern Monster

The flash of lightning that awoke Frankenstein’s Monster in 1818 signaled the new concept of science fiction as allegory and cautionary tale for the modern world. To celebrate Halloween–this month OWA appropriates the image of the monster created in the English Romantic period and puts him squarely into an American context by tracing its history from a symbol of fear to a figure of fun.