We're sure you've read this one. But still, we'll lay it out for you: a scientist wants to make a beautiful guy. Instead, he makes an ugly guy.
Then the scientist runs away from his creation, even though the ugly guy wants to be friends. In fact, the poor scary-looking dude can't find a single friend. Let alone a wife, though he really wants one. Soon all hell breaks loose and lots of people die.
Ecocritics like this story for lots of reasons, but here's one: the weather in 1814 clearly helped to inspire all the doom-and-gloom in Shelley's tale. How do you think researching the details of the eruption of Tambora and the unusual weather events that followed can expand our reading of Frankenstein?
And what other scientific disciplines can be used as companion analytic tools for examining literary texts? (An exciting question indeed, if we do say so ourselves.)