Mary Shelley's (1797–1851) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) is a psychiatric revelation. Prometheus created man, stole fire from heaven to benefit mankind and inspired civilisation; condemned by Zeus to eternal torment, an eagle fed on his immortal liver (seat of emotion). Shelley reanimates the allegory with deceiving, ethical, geographical, introspective, Gothic, homicidal, Romantic, scientific and theological substance.

Source: Cambridge