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In our previous conversation with Eileen Hunt Botting (April 2020) as the pandemic began to deceptively settle into our routines we focused on Mary Shelley’s post-apocalypse novel, The Last Man – a book which explored loss in its most extreme form in order to find a more humane way to live and love, and create art. Today, we turn once …

Just as so many of us know the story of Frankenstein’s Monster without having read the novel that birthed him, so too we know the story of Lionel Verney, the last man on earth. The fear of being left totally alone and the sorrow of loss are powerfully depicted in Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man. The Last Man …