This thesis starts with two premises Firstly, Mary Shelley owed her literary achievement to what Harold Bloom called the anxiety of influence It is not too far-fetched to presume that Mary Shelley was under the heavy pressure of proving herself worthy of her parentage, being the daughter of two of the most illustrious English writers, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraf..
This paper aims to examine the core of Hume`s theory of sympathy and empiricism by focusing on the way in which Deleuze creates his theory of sympathy based on his original interpretation of Hume Furthermore, we seek to devise a new mode of literary theory, which is strongly informed by the creative encounter between sympathy and empiricism For this project, beyond the limit..