Frankenstein: interrogating gender, culture and identity
- Chennai Macmillan 2004
- 208p.
- Macmillan Critical Readers .
This anthology contains a collection of essays that query a range of subjects related to gender, to politics, to history, to culture and their combined capacity to forge identity. It posits ways in which Mary Shelly manipulates and recasts the central tropes of Jacobinism and romanticism to create an elaborately detailed plot that breathes psychic violence and despair.
140392404X
Literature
English fiction
Shelley, Mary
Science fiction, English
Scientists in literature
Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)
Horror tales, English
823.7 / FRA
This anthology contains a collection of essays that query a range of subjects related to gender, to politics, to history, to culture and their combined capacity to forge identity. It posits ways in which Mary Shelly manipulates and recasts the central tropes of Jacobinism and romanticism to create an elaborately detailed plot that breathes psychic violence and despair.
140392404X
Literature
English fiction
Shelley, Mary
Science fiction, English
Scientists in literature
Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft)
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character)
Horror tales, English
823.7 / FRA