In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley introduces the concept of galvanism to the story through Victor Frankenstein:
We witnessed a most violent and terrible thunder-storm. Before this I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity. On this occasion a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me (Frankenstein ch. 2). In addition, Giovanni Aldini, physicist nephew of Luigi Galvani, used his uncle’s discoveries for morbid entertainment displays. In the early 1800’s, he used electricity in a public showing to make a slaughtered ox’s eyes, nose, and tongue move. He went on to experiment on the recently deceased body of a man. Aldini